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the ufual height and fize, it frequently 

 does ; becaufe, it is no otherwife natural to 

 it, after the injuries it has received from 

 the inclemency of our air, than it can be 

 faid to be natural to a young perfon to be 

 dwarfed, after he has fuffered by external 

 violence in fome of his limbs— -That, fuch 

 is the unhappy difference between us, and 

 our neighbours on the continent ^ of air in 

 our climate in the fpring, and beginning of 

 fummer oftentimes 5 appears from the uni- 

 verfal confent of all travellers that have been 

 any time there. The continenters having 

 ever been much happier than we, in a con- 

 tinued equality in the influences of vegeta- 

 ting warmth, at thofe timely feafons ; which 

 brings to my mind what Virgil fays in one 

 of his GeorgicSy 



Ver adeo frondi nemorum^ ver utile fylvis^ 

 Turn Pater omnipoiem Jcecundis imbribus 

 tether^ 



Conjugis in gremium lata defcendit^ et 

 omnes 



Magnus alit, magno commijlus corpore fatus ; 

 Inque novos foles audent Je gramina into 

 Credere^ n^ l i. ■ 1 m , m 



And 



