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and coming into a warm room, cryed oat of extream tor- 
ments in all parts of his body. He affirmed, that the Air, 
and the Winds (which were then fomewhat high) were fo 
unfufferablycold, that he was in utter defpair of coming 
home alive 5 yet all that day nothing but moift dew fell 
under our feet. If we fay, the Earth did (end forth warm 
fteams to keep this freezing rain diffolved on her Surface ; 
whence (ball we fay^the Air and Rain and Winds got che(e 
freezing Icicles, which oppreffed men and plants > When 
the candid Frofts do cover our Fruit-trees perfectly white 
(as I have oft-times feen it hold for fome weeks togetherj 
it is fo far from doing hurt to the Trees, that we have it ia 
a proverb for a good fign of abundance of fruit in the en- 
luingyear : But for this Freezing rain^as foon as it touched 
any bough, fetled into Ice, and by multiplying and en* 
larging the Icicles (cfpecially where it could lay hold on 
Mofs or other afperities of theTrec)it broke all down with 
the weight* 
As foon as thcfe Frofts were over, we had glowing heats, 
which caufexl a general complaint amongft u$ of exccflive 
fwcatingj by night and day* The buflies and many flow*- 
ers in the Garden appeared in fuch forwardnefs , as, if it 
were \n j4prilot May. I fa w young Coleworts growing > 
roots and leaves > on the top, leaves of an older Colwort, 
Not far from my abode, an Apple-tree bloffomcd before 
Chriftmafs : This I do not mention for extraordinary 5 but 
I think, *ds more than ordinary, that before New-years- 
tide this Apple- tree bore Apples perfcftly knitted, and as 
big as ones fingers end* I had (bme of thefe apples brought 
to me, which I intended to fend you ^ but they fo withe- 
red in my pocket,that they have little refemblance of what 
they were a fortnight fince, when they were greeo and 
plump* 
It were to be wilhed, that feme ingenious men would 
(inftead of the conjecfturcs of weather to come>> give a 
faithful and judicious accomptof the weather, and other 
remarkable accidents and ph^e^ome^a, as they fell out on 
the 
