SECTIO ORDINIS. CARTA SUGGESTIONS. 185 



So in frosts, the inside of glass windows gathereth a 

 dew ; qu. if not more without. 



Qu. Whether the sweating of marble and stones be 

 in frost or towards rain. 



Oil in time of frost gathereth to a substance as of 

 tallow, and it is said to sparkle some time so as it giv- 

 eth a light in the dark. 



The countries which lie covered with snow have a 

 hastier maturation of all grain than in other countries, 

 all being within three months or thereabouts. 



Qu. It is said that compositions of honey, as mead a 

 do ripen and are most pleasant in the great colds. 



The frosts with us are casual and not tied to any 

 months, so as they are not merely caused by the recess 

 of the sun, but mixed with some inferior causes. In 

 the inlands of the northern countries as in Russia the 

 weather for the three or four months of November, 

 December, January, February, is constant, vt. clear and 

 perpetual frost without snows or rains. 



There is nothing in our region, which, by approach 

 of a matter hot, will not take heat by transition or 

 excitation. 



There is nothing hot here with us but is in a kind 

 of consumption if it carry heat in itself ; for all fired 

 things are ready to consume, chafed things are ready 

 to fire, and the heat of men's bodies needeth aliment 

 to restore. 



The transition of heat is without any imparting of 

 substance, and yet remaineth after the body heated is 

 withdrawn ; for it is not like smells, for they leave 

 some airs or parts ; not like light, for that abideth not 



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