184 CALOR ET FRIGUS. 



tries of Scricfinnia, Biarmia, Lappia, Iceland, Gron- 

 land ; and that not by perpetual keeping in in stoves 

 in the winter time as they do in Russia, but contrari- 

 wise their chief fairs and intercourse is written to be 

 in the winter, because the ice evens l and levelleth the 

 passages of waters, plashes, &c. 



A thaw after a frost doth greatly rot and mellow the 

 ground. 



Extreme cold hurteth the eyes and causes blindness 

 in many beasts, as is reported. 



The cold maketh any solid substance, as wood, 

 stone, metal, put to the flesh to cleave to it and to 

 pull the flesh after it, and so put to any cloth that is 

 moist. 



Cold maketh the pilage of beasts more thick and 

 long, as foxes of Muscovy, sables, &c. 



Cold maketh the pilage of most beasts incline to 

 grayness or whiteness, as foxes, bears, and so the plu- 

 mage of fowls, and maketh also the crests of cocks and 

 their feet white, as is reported. 



Extreme colds will make nails leap out of the walls 

 and out of locks 2 and the like. 



Extreme cold maketh leather to be stiff like horn. 



In frosty weather the stars appear clearest and most 

 sparkling. 



In the change from frost to open- weather or from 

 open weather to frosts, commonly great mists. 



In extreme colds any thing never so little which 

 arresteth the air maketh it to congeal ; as we see in 

 cobwebs in windows, which is one of the least and 

 weakest . thrids that is and yet drops gather about it 

 like chains of pearl. 



1 even in MS. a Qu. whether lockes or ktckers. 



