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nople and Scutari frozen to fuch a degree, in the reign of Conilan- 



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tine Copronymus, that even loaded carts palled over it. Tlic 



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Prince Demetrius Cantemir * obferves, that in the year 16-jj 



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.there hanpened fo intenfe a froft that the people walked over 

 .the ice from Conftantinople tolfkodar. AH thefe inftances confirm 



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Mr. de Buf'on's ^ffsrtion; but as this great natural hiilorian fays, 



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that the Black Sea is the only inflance of a fea being entirely frozen -f-; 

 I muft beg leave to diffent from him, for it is equally well attefted, 



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that the Baltic is fometimes entirely frozen according to Caspar 

 ScHUTz's account :}:. In the year 1426, the winter was fo fevere 

 that people travelled over the ice acrofs the Baltic from Dantzick to 

 Lubeck ; and the fea was likewife pafTable from Denmark to Meck- 



lenburgh, and 



the 



year 



459, the whole Bait 



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frozen, fo that perfons travelled both on foot and on horfeback, over 

 ice from Denmark to the Venedick Hanf- towns, called Lubeck, 

 Wifmar, Roflock and Stralfund, which had never happened be- 

 fore J people likewife travelled acrofs the Baltic over ice from Reval 



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* Demetr. Cantemir hift, of the Othman Empire and Modern Univerfal Hiftory, vol.. V. 

 in fol. p. 347* 



--j- In the year 8605'the mediterranean was covered with ice, To that people travelled in carts 



and horfes acrofs the Ionian Sea to Venice. 



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p. 236.) And in 1234 the mediterranean was again thus frozen, that the Venetian merchants 

 travelled over the Ice with their merchandize to what place they chofe, Matth. Parlfs. p. 78. 



% Cafpar Schutz Hifloria rerum Pxufficarum. Leipzig, fol. 1599, p. 114. and 281.* 



