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up provifions. In mild weather, they were 

 ufed to carry away apples, and other provi- 

 fions : therefore, we could always conclude, 

 with certainty, when the rats made an uncom- 

 mon noife at night, or were extremely greedy, 

 that a fevere cold would enfue. I have al- 

 ready obferved in the preceding volume, 

 p. 312, that the grey fquirrels in this coun- 

 try have the fame quality. When thefe, 

 and the common mice, eat maize, they do 

 not confume the whole grains, but only 

 the loofe, fweet and foft kernel, and leave 

 the reft. 



January the 2 1 ft. TtfE cold now equalled 

 that of Sweden, though this country is fo 

 much more foutherly. The Celftan or Swe~ 

 dijh thermometer was twenty-two degrees 

 below the freezing point, in the morning. 

 As the rooms are without any muttefs here, 

 the cracks in the walls not clofed with mofs, 

 and fometimes no fire-place or chimney in 

 the room, the winters here muft be very 

 difagreeable to one who is ufed to our w- 

 dijh warm winter-rooms. But the greateft 

 comfort here is, that the cold is of a very 

 fhort duration. Some days of this month, 

 the room which I lodged in was fuch, that 

 I could not write two lines before the ink 

 would freeze in my pen. When I did not 

 write, I could not leave the ink-ftand on the 



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