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ftormy. The South-Eaft and South hazy and fouftryr 
hot: Their Winter is a fine clear Air, and dry, which 
renders it very pleafant : Their Frofts are fhort, but 
fometimes very fharp, that it will freeze the Rivers over 
three miles broad; nay, the Secretary of State allured 
me, it had frozen clever over Potomack River, over 
againft his Houfe, where it is near nine Miles over, I 
haveobftrved it freezes there the hardeft, when from a 
moift South-Eaft, on afuddain the Wind paffing by the^ 
Nore, a nitrous iharp Nore- Weft blows- not with high 
Gufts, but with a cutting brisk Air ; and thofe Vails 
then that feem to be ftielter'd from the Wind, and lie 
warm, where the Air is mod ftagnant and moift, are 
frozen the hardeft, and feized the (boneft, and there the 
Fruits are more fubjed to blaft than where the Air has a 
free Motion. Snow falls fometimes in pretty quantity, 
but rarely continues there above a day or two ; Their 
Spring is about a Month earlier than in England • in 
April they have frequent Rains, fometimes feveral fhort 
and fuddain Gufts. May and June the Heat encreafes, and 
it is much like our Summer, being mitigated w ith gen- 
tle Breezes, that rife about Nine of the Clock, and de~ 
create and incline as the Sun riles and falls. July and 
Augufl thofe Breezes ceafe, and the Air becomes ftag- 
nant, that the Heat is violent and troublefbm. fn Sep* 
temher the Weather ufually breaks fuddenly, and there 
falls generally very confiderable Rains.When the Weather 
breaks many fall fick, this being the time of an Endemi- 
cal Sicknefs, for Seafonings, Cachexes, Fluxes, Scorbu- 
tica! Dropfies, Gripes, or the like, which I have attri- 
buted to this Reafon. That by the extraordinary Heat 
the Ferment of the Blood being raifed too high, and the 
Tone of the Stomach relaxed, when the Weather breaks i 
the Blood palls, and like over-fermented Liquors is de- 
pauperated, or turns eager and fharp, and there's a crude 
Bigeftion, whence the named Diftempers may be fup- 
