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cold and clear, or elfe ftormy. The South-* 

 Eaft and South hazy and foultry hot : Their 

 Winter is a fine clear Air, and dry, which 

 renders it very pleafant : Their Frofts are 

 fhort, but fometimes very lharp, that it will 

 freeze the Rivers over three Miles broad ; 

 nay, the Secretary of State affured me, it 

 had frozen clever over Potomack, River, over 

 againft his Houfe, where it is near nine 

 Miles over : I have obferved it freezes there 

 the hardeft, when from a moift South Eaft, 

 on a fudden the Wind pafling by the Nore, 

 a nitrous fliarp Nore-Weft blows -, not with 

 high Gufts, but with a cutting brisk Air; 

 and thofe Vails then that feem to be fhelt- 

 er'd from the Wind, and lie warm, where 

 the Air is moft ftagnant and moift, are fro- 

 zen the hardeft, and feized the fooneft, and 

 there the Fruits are more fubjedt to blaft 

 than where the Air has a free Motion. Snow 

 falls fometimes in pretty quantity, but rare- 

 ly continues there above a Day or two : 

 Their Spring is about a Month earlier than in 

 England in Afril they have frequent Rains, 

 fometimes feveral ftiortand fuddainGufts. May 

 and Juneth^ Heat encreafes, and it is much 

 like our Summer, being mitigated with gentle 

 Breezes that rife about 9 of the Clock, and de- 

 creafe and incline as the Sun rifes and falls. 

 July and Augufi thofe Breezes ceafe, and the 

 Air becomes ftagnant, that the Heat is vi- 

 olent and troublefome. In September the 

 Weather ufually breaks fuddenly, and there 

 falls generally very confiderable Rains. When 

 the Weather breaks many fall Sick, this be- 

 ing the, time of an Endemical Sickncfs, for 



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