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it will burn their Bowels and make them black. 
So that it has a warming vertue in it, and is 
therefore fitly compared to Wool.” 
Snow has many merits. “In Lapland, where 
there is little or no light of the sun in the depth 
of Winter, there are great Snows continually on 
the ground, and by the Light of that they are 
able to Travel from one place to another. . 
At this day in some hot Countreys, they have 
their Snow-cellars, where it is kept in Summer, 
and if moderately used, is known to be both 
refreshing and healthful. There are also Me- 
dicinal Vertues in the snow. A late Learned 
Physician has found that a Sa/¢ extracted out 
of snow is a sovereign Remedy against both pu- 
trid and pestilential Feavors. Therefore Men 
should Praise God, who giveth Snow like Wool.” 
But there is an account against the snow, also. 
“ Not only the disease called Budimza, but others 
more fatal have come out of the Snow. Geo- 
graphers give us to understand that in some 
Countries Vapours from the Snow have killed 
multitudes in less than a Quarter of an Hour. 
‘Sometimes both Men and Beasts have been 
destroyed thereby. Writers speak of no less 
than Forty Thousand men killed by a great 
Snow in one Day.” 
It gives a touching sense of human sympathy, 
to find that we may look at Orion and the Plei- 
