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tentive reader must observe in perusing my jour- 

 nal. The winters are very long and severe, but 

 the cold is of a pleasant kind; never causing a 

 person to shiver, as it does in England; neither 

 could I ever observe, that the sudden, and great 

 transitions which are so often experienced, had 

 any bad effect on the constitution; nor do I know 

 of one endemical complaint. Agues I never heard 

 of, although Physicians tell us, ' ' They are caused, 

 by stagnate waters and too much wood," both of 

 which there are in the greatest abundance there/ 

 A few miles from the sea, the weather, in the sum- 

 mer time, is quite warm, and the air has a remark- 

 able softness in it; but the multitude of mosche- 

 tos and sand-flies are intolerable grievances. On 

 the sea coast, the air is much cooler, and it is very 

 raw and cold indeed, when the wind comes in 

 from the ocean; occasioned by the prodigious 

 quantities of ice so immediately contiguous to the 

 coast, whereby the water itself is always in a 

 chilled state. Were it not for the immense quan- 

 tity of fresh water, which is continually running 

 into the sea from the rivers, brooks, and drainage 

 of the land, caused by the melting of the incred- 

 ible quantity of snow which falls in the course of 

 the winter, that coast would long since have been 

 inaccessible to ships; for the summers are neither 

 long, nor hot enough to dissolve the ice; whereas, 

 these waters raise the surface of the sea so much 

 higher than that which lies nearer to the equinoc- 



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