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by the sun-beams. For in the countries near the pole, 



the extreme colds even in the summer months, 



as in the voyage t' Nova Zembla, where they could not 



their barque from the ice, no not in July, 



and met with ureat mountains of ice some floating 



sunn- h'xed, at that time of the year, being the heart of 



summer. 



The caves under the earth noted to be warmer in 

 winter than in summer, and so the waters that spring 

 from within the earth. 



it quantity of sulphur, and sometimes naturally 

 burninir after the manner of JEtna, in Iceland ; the 

 like written of Gronland, and divers other the cold 

 countries. 1 



The trees in the cold countries are such as are fuller 

 of ro-in, pitch, tar, which are matters apt for fire, and 

 the woods themselves more combustible than those in 

 much hotter countries ; as, for example, fir, pineapple, 

 juniper : QH. whether their trees of the same kind that 

 are, as oak and ash, bear not, in the more cold 

 countries, a wood more brittle and ready to take fire 

 than the same kinds with us ? 



-iun-b'-ams heat manifestly 6y reflexion, as in 



countries pent in with hills, upon walls or buildings, 



upon pavement-, upon gravel more than earth, upon 



uion- than ^rass, upon rivers if they be not very 



uniting or collection of the sun-beams multipli- 



eth heat, a^ iu banung*gkuM, which are made thinner 2 



middle than on the sides (as I take it contrary 



1 Opi and to the nine preceding paragraphs, is written in the 



margin 



I. p. 361. (where the error is avoided, though 

 7S. note 1. 

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