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inclofed with bricks, and of fuch bricks as 

 have been found in feveral places in the 

 ground, I have afterwards heard repeated 

 by many other old Swedes. 



December the 2 2d. An old farmer fore- 

 told a change of the weather, becaufe the 

 air was very warm this day at noon, though 

 the morning had been very cold. This he 

 likewife concluded, from having obferved 

 the clouds gathering about the (un. The 

 meteorological obfervations annexed to the 

 end of this volume will prove that his ob- 

 fervation was juft. 



December the 3 1 fl. The remedies againfl: 

 the tooth-ach are almoft as numerous as 

 days in a year. There is hardly an old 

 woman but can tell you three or four fcore 

 of them, of which me is perfectly certain 

 that they are as infallible and fpeedy in 

 giving relief, as a month's failing, by bread 

 and water, is to a burthenfome paunch. 

 Yet it happens often, nay too frequently, 

 that this painful difeafe eludes all this 

 formidable army of remedies. However, I 

 cannot forbear obferving the following re- 

 medies, which havefometimes, in this coun- 

 try, been found effectual againft the tooth- 

 ach. 



When the pains come from the hollo w- 

 nefs of the teeth, the following remedy is 



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