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Cold increases appetite in the stomach and willing- 

 ness to stir. 



Cold maketh the fire to scald and sparkle. 



Paracelsus reporteth that if a glass of wine be set 

 upon a tarras in a bitter frost it will leave some liquor 

 unfrozen in the centre of the glass, which excelleth 

 spirit u * I'ini drawn by fire. 



Cold in Muscovy and the like countries causes those 

 parts which are voidest of blood, as the nose, the ears, 

 the toes, the fingers, to mortify and rot ; specially if 

 you come suddenly to fire after you have been in the air 

 abroad, they are sure to moulder and dissolve. They 

 use for remedy as is said washing in snow water. 



If a man come out of a bitter cold suddenly to the 

 fire he is ready to swoon or overcome. 



So contrariwise at Nova Zembla when they opened 

 their door at times to go forth he that opened the door 

 was in danger to overcome. 1 



The quantity of fish in the cold countries, Norway, 

 &c. very abundant. 



The quantity of fowl and eggs laid in the cliffs in 

 great abundance. 



In Nova Zembla they found no beast but bears and 

 foxes, whereof the bears gave over to be seen about 

 September, and then the foxes began. 2 



Meat will keep from putrifying longer in frosty 

 weather, than at other times. 



In Iceland they keep fish by exposing it to the cold 

 from putrifying without salt. 



The nature of man endureth the colds in the coun- 



1 See Three Voyages, &c. Hackl. Soc. 1853, p. 130. 



2 " Before the sun began to decline we saw no foxes, and then the bears 

 used to go from us." Hackl. Soc, 1853, p. 120. 



