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LETTER LXIII. 



To the same. 



S the frost in December 1784 was very extra- 

 ordinary, you, I trust, will not be displeased 

 to hear the particulars ; and especially when 

 I promise to say no more about the severities 

 of winter after I have finished this letter. 1 



The first week in December was very wet, 

 with the barometer very low. On the 7th, 

 with the barometer at 28.5 came on a vast snow, which 

 continued all that day and the next, and most part of the 



T White here pretends to be still writing letters, but the pretence by this 

 time has become sufficiently transparent. ED. 



