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of opinion that it rained as plentifully at 

 prefent, as formerly. 



ALL the people agreed, that the wea- 

 ther was not by far fo inconftant, when 

 they were young, as it is now. For at 

 prefent it happens at all times of the year, 

 that when a day has been warm, the next 

 is very cold, and vice verfa. It frequently 

 happens that the weather alters feveral 

 times in one day j fo that when it has been 

 a pretty warm morning, the wind blows 

 from N. W. about ten o'clock, and brings 

 a cold air with it ; yet a little after noon 

 it may be warm again. My meteorological 

 obfervations fufficiently confirm the reality 

 of thefe fudden changes of weather, which 

 are faid to caufe in a great meafure the 

 people to be more unhealthy at prefent, 

 than they were formerly. 



I likewife found every body agree in af- 

 ferting, that the winter, betwixt the au- 

 tumn of the year 1697, anc ^ th e fpring of 

 the year 1698, was the coldeft and the fe- 

 vereft which they had ever felt. 



April the 6th. SANGUINARIA Canaden- 

 Jis 9 which is here called Blood-root, becaufe 

 the root is great and red, and, when cut, 

 looks like, the root of red beet, and the 

 Epigtza repens, which fome call the creep- 

 ing ground Laurel) were both beginning to 

 3 flower. 



