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reafon to maintain that the froft fixes, covers, 

 and preferves them. Whether this is done 

 by intercepting their afcent, and precipitating 

 them to the ground by the grofs particles 

 of frozen dew, or whether by flieathmg 

 them and protetfting them from the pene- 

 trating air, (as the good Wives preferve 

 their potted meats and pickles,) I leave to 

 the Learned ^ but the fac^s are certain, and 

 confirmed by experience. We have, there^ 

 fore, only to take notice, by the way, that 

 the hoar-froft is very often of fhort conti- 

 nuance, changeable, and uncertain, both as 

 to its time and place of failing i and hence 

 all thefe difficulties are eafily refolved. Let 

 the Huntfman, as foon as he is out of bed, 

 ^xaminQ but the glafs windows, which 

 commonly difcover whether any hoar-frofl 

 has fallen, what time it came, and in what 

 condition of continuance, or going off, it 

 is for the prcfent. If it appears to have 

 fallen at two, three, or four in the morn- 

 ing, (fuppofe in the month of October, 

 and other times of the year mufl be judged 

 of by proportion,) and to be going off 

 about break of day, it may then be expected 



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