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And that therefore coldh healthful, I argue from the 
vaft number of Old men and women to be found upon 
tkiz Mountains oi England^ comparatively to what are 
found elfewhere. 
Again, the Blood it felf; or the Vital liquor of Animals 
equivalent to it, is in moft kinds of Animals in Nature 
fenfibly cold for that the Species of Quadrupeds and 
Forvles are not to be compared for Number to Fijhes and 
InjeHs: There being in all probability by what I have 
obferved, above a hundred iSJ^^aVj- of thefe latter crea« 
tures whofe Vital juice is roW, to one of the former ; But 
becaufewemoft converle with thofe whole Vital Juice 
hot, we are apt to think the fame of alL 
Again I have obferved, which 1 offer as an Argument 
of the little injury intenfe cold does to the nature of Ant* 
mals, I fay, I have feen both Hexapode-Worms (which! 
compare to the tender Embryos of Sanguineous Animals^ 
becaufefuch are in a middle Stafe ) and Flyes oi AivQXs 
forts hard frozen in the Winter, and I have taken them 
up from the ^y^on?, and if I caftthem againftthe Glafs^ 
they would endanger the breaking of it, and make ic 
l^ng lik^ fo much hard/^^ j yet when I put the InfeSs 
under the Glafs, and fet them before the fire, they would 
after a fhort time nimbly creep about, and be gone, if the 
Glafs which I whelmed upon themjiad not fecured them. 
It hath indeed been noted by a very wife Philofopher 
in contradidion to our Englijb Proverb % which faies, 
that a Green Chrijlmas 7na\es a fat Church-yard ; That the 
laft Plague broke out here at London after a long and fe« 
vere winter J. But I reply, that that was accidentally 
oncly, for that that difeaje is never bred amongft us, but 
comes to us by trade and Infeilion, Tis properly a 
pifeafe of -4^^^, where it is Epidemical. .And therefore 
by t\icProvide7ice oi God, we are very fecure from any 
fuch calamities as the Natural effed: of our Climate, 
And for the fame reafon, 1 judg thcfmall Pox fo much 
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