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" to fall till ten o' clock in the morning, 

 " when the wind chopped about to the 

 " North-weft with incredible iiercenefs, 

 " and extreme cold. Now it was that in- 

 " numerable fheep and other cattle were 

 (t loft in the mountains of fnow; and many 

 " poor people going that morning to 

 " look after their cattle, the remembrance 

 " of which is terrible, were equally fuf- 

 u ferers with them, being buried in the 

 cc fnow. 



" The Apricots and Peaches which were 

 " now in bloffom upon warm walls, were 

 u all deftroyed, and not only the bloffoms, 

 " but the trees alfo, their bark burfting 

 " off." 



I have often obferved from thefe Ther- 

 mometers, when that kind of hovering lam- 

 bent fog arifes, ( either mornings or even- 

 ings) which frequently betokens fair wea- 

 ther, that the air which in the preceding 

 day was much warmer, has upon the ab- 

 fence of the fun become many degrees 

 cooler than the furface of the earth; which 

 being near 1500 times denfer than the air, 

 cannot be fo ibon affected with the alter- 

 nates of hot and cold ; whence 'tis pro- 

 bable, that thofe vapours which ajre railed 



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