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of themfelves; for they eat but little, hav- 

 ing neither Stomach nor Mony to buy what 

 they want; but they drink excefllvely, be- 

 ing for that more readily trufted, and of Li- 



chufe the cold rather, his Stomach is chiPd, 

 and he is in danger of a Flux or a n extream 

 Loofenefs, and that immediately. 



There is another thing, Men guard them- 

 lelves lefs from the Air than in any other 

 Places trufting to the Heat of the Climate^ 

 and receive the cool of the Evening with on- 

 ly a Shirt. Now I think that the Air^ tho* 

 not fo cold, is much more fubtle and piercing 

 here, than in our Country, it corrodes Iron 

 much more, not by the Moifture, for it is 

 not fo moift, and befides it does it in the dry 

 Weather too. Perhaps there are fome other 

 EfFefts to evidence the fame thing; befides 

 that, the Diet which moft Men procure, is 

 not extraordinary, and the pafling by Canoes 

 from one Place to another has a Danger in 

 it befide that of the Sea. 



Cafe Corfe^ Afr. 25. 1(588. 

 "T Promifed in my laft to give you an Ac- 



X count of the Weather at Cafe Corfe for 

 the laft Year, which Account I have inclofed 

 in thisi it is asexad as I could give; 'tis a 

 thing which has been very little obferved^ 

 whether it deferves to be more, I do not 

 know. That Year has had the moft Rain of 

 any that can be here remember'd ; yet the 

 Mortality was much lefs than the Years be- 

 fore i fo that perhaps Wet is not that which 

 makes the Country unhealthy \ though we 



hot and Spirituous *, and if any 



had 



