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river, becaufe the ice flops fometimes, and 

 flicks in places where the river is narrow. 

 The water has been often obferved to rife 

 three fathom higher than it commonly is in 

 fummer. The ground is frozen here in 

 winter to the depth of three, four, or five 

 feet. On the 16th of November the yachts 

 are put up, and about the beginning or 

 middle of April they are in motion again. 

 They are unacquainted with ftoves ; and 

 their chimnies are fo wide that one could 

 drive through them with a cart and horfes. 



The water of feveral wells in this town 

 was very cool about this time ; but had a 

 kind of acid tafte, which was not very agree- 

 able. On a nearer examination, I found 

 an abundance of little infects in it, which 

 were probably Monoculi, Their length was 

 different ; fome were a geometrical line and 

 an half, others two, and others four lines 

 long. They were very narrow, and of a 

 pale colour. The head was blacker and 

 thicker than the other parts of the body, and 

 about the fize of a pin's head. The tail 

 was divided into two branches, and each 

 branch terminated in a little black "lobule. 



O 



When thefe infects fwim, they proceed in 

 crooked or undulated lines, almoftlike Tad- 



Co/es. I poured fome of this water into a 

 owl, and put near a fourth part of rum to 



it. 



