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cemve cold. This, however, is by no means the cafe ; for 

 whilft foreigners can fcarcely take any exercife out of doors, with 

 the fun high above the horizon, without feeling a* fpecies of 

 faintifh debility, the natives even carry on the hardeft labour 

 without much apparent fatigue. This may probably be ac- 

 counted for by their conflant ufe of the vapour bath, heated to 

 a degree unfupportable for many minutes to a foreigner, whilft 

 they feel themfelves perfectly at their eafe in it, from habit, and 

 are as fond of it as the Greeks and Romans were of the tepid 

 water bath. 



Another circumftance in the mode of life of this northern 

 people, which may alfo contribute greatly to their fupporting 

 fo well considerable degrees of heat, is their living at home, 

 for eight months of the year, in a conflant heat of from 

 16 ° to 20 of Reaum. or from 68° to about 77 of Fahr. ; 

 nay, even during the fummer, the ovens of their cottages are 

 obliged to be pretty conftantly heated, each peafant baking his 

 bread at home, and drefling his victuals in them. 



AUTUMN. 



The remark I have already made on the feafons will account 

 for my leaving this period blank, and only mentioning it for 

 form's fake. I have annexed the abridged regifter of fifteen 

 years, made ufe of in this paper, as there may be fome who 

 would wifh to fee it. 



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