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together, and withal, at their very worft, nothing near fo violent 

 as in moft other countries •, fo that feme, all winter long, hiirdly 

 come near a fire in a day ; and that not only in the ordinary cold 

 weather, but even whilft it is a freezing. Yea many times the cold 

 is fo flack, even in the midft of the winter-months, that by walk- 

 ing only, or doing feme other moderate exercife, you fliall find 

 yourfelf as warm, and the air as fweet and pleafant, as it- were in 

 the month of May.' 



' There hath been fome winters,' continues he, ' wherein it 

 hath frozen ten or twelve days together, fo as the Liffie, and other 

 the like rivers, were quite frozen, and might be gone upon by 

 men and beafts: but thofe are altogether extraordinary, and do 

 come very feldom ; hardly once in the fpace of ten or twelVe years. 

 But how mild they ordinarily be, and how little fubjed to excef- 

 five cold, may appear hereby, that all kind of beafts and cattle, as 

 cows, horfes, and fheep, do there all winter long remain abroad, 

 and do feed in the fields, where they are left in the night-time as 

 well as in the day ; and that many herbs, which in England and 

 Netherland do dye every winter, here continue all the year long.' 

 Nor was this temperate ftate of the air, in Boate's time, confined 

 to one feafon of the year, and to the fouthern provinces ; but like- 

 wife prevailed in every feafon, and in the northern and weftern di- 

 vifions, in fo remarkable a degree, that, in another paflage, he 



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