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climate as temperate as ours, began their aftro- 

 nomical obfervations amidft the woods or moun- 

 tains near Torneao, before the fnow lay deep up- 

 on them, and the intenfe cold had not encreaf- 

 edto— 51^, as it afterwards did ; however, it was 

 fuch, that all liquors excepting brandy froze, 

 and a veflel could not be taken from the mouth 

 without drawing blood, for the froft had glued 

 it to the lips. 



The favages of the moft northern climates con- 

 tinue to hunt during the coideft weather ; and fo 

 true is it, that motion alone preferves life, when 

 any misfortue threatens deflruction, they acceler- 

 ate death by reft(i). There can be no better 

 proof of the efficacy of motion again ft cold than 

 the narrative of the Dutch who wintered at Spits- 

 bergen, a country fituated in 78^? of north lati- 

 tude, and by common confent allowed to be the 

 coideft in the world. Thole who had fhut them- 

 felves up in a hut, in the beginning of the feafon, 

 died one after another. The cold was fo excef- 

 five that no fire could warm them ; whereas thofe 

 who had gone into the open air, and employed 

 themfelves in the chace, in carrying wood, or 

 any other corporal exercife, preferved health and 

 vigour (2). 



E»4 From 



(i) Boerhaave, Praelec5tiones. Haller, Phyf. torn. 2. 

 (2) The fame has invariably been proved by the ac- 

 counts of thofe unfortunate perfons condemned to win- 

 ter 



