(51^6) 
fame. The reafon whereof is, becaufe Fowls having no or- 
gans for evacuation of Urinej the Urinous parts of their blood 
are evacuated by the habit or skin, where they prod ace and 
nourifh feathers: 
From hence it ffiould feem, That every drop of Rain afore- 
faid, containing in it felf fome Spirituous particles (as from the 
height, to which they are advanced, the prolifique virtue of 
Rain^ and its eafie tcndciticy to putrefadion above other wa- 
ter, is argued they do,) and meeting with others in their defi 
cent, of a Saline, aud thnt partly nitrous, but chiefly urinous, 
or.of an acido-falinous nsuiirei the laid Spirituous parts are 
apprehended by them, and witbihofe the watery, and fo the 
whole drop Is fixed ; yet not in^to any indifferent and irregu- 
lariDhape^ depriving the ipirituous parts of their motion in an 
inftant , but according to the energy of the Spirituous, as the 
Peccil,aDd the fpecifick nature or determinate poffibility of the 
faline parts as the Ruler,*tis thus figur'd into a little Star^Thefe 
things fomewhat further confider'd and clear*d,may add a little 
to that great deal of light, which the Hononrabh MuBojl hath 
given to the nature of Coid, the Air, and the Bodies therein 
contained, in his excellent Difcourfes hereof. 
A Confirmation^ given by Dr. Wallis, of what rp0S delivered in 
^umb. 90. about the Strange Freezing in Somerfetlhirc. 
^''nr^HE Strange Froft (or Freezing rather) you give anac^ 
i comtoitoh2LVthz^ntA}i\SomerfetJhiremDe€ember\i& 
(though I remember not the day) was the like with us atO^:- 
ford. It v^as rather a Raining of Ic€,or at leaft Rain Frecziog 
as it fell 5 which made ftrange Icicles hanging on Trees 5 and 
a ftrange noife by the ratliog of them upon the Bows motion 
by ihe wind : But not fo much as at the places you mention in 
Somerfetjhire. Yet more in the Country about us {as from fc- 
veral Relators I Have heard,; than with us here. And the great 
Warmth foon after was alfo with us 5 infomuch that not only 
Bloffoms, but (as was then certainly affirm d,though I was not 
fo curious as to get afight ofany,) green Apples on divers 
trees J particularly in the parilh of H^^/y-ji^eiK 
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