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Elbe they could not work abroad. It killed alfo ma- 
By Animals immediately. The Crows, which can bear 
intenfeCold, fell dead from the Trees: Stags, Goats,' 
and Hares perilhed in great Numbers. The Plants 
likewile felt its Violence, and the more tender Trees 
were damaged. The Limes were every where inju- 
red : The greater Branches of the Plumb-trees, Apri- 
cots and Peaches, were dried up ; but the Vines fuf- 
fered mofl:, the more robull being Ihriveled to the 
very loweft part of their Trunk, unlels guarded by a 
Wall, or fome other Covering. 
From thefe Obfervations the Author compares this 
Winter with the memorable one of 1709, and proves 
both from Thermofcopical Obfervations ; from its Ef- 
fects upon theEarth and Animals ; from its longer Con- 
tinuance, and from the greater Extent of the Cold in- 
to the more Southern Parts, that this laft much exceed- 
ed the former, at lead: in Germany, 
Having thus finillied the Hiftory, he laflly enquires 
into the probable Caufes of it. He takes Notice, that 
the Winter foregoing was moderately cold and dry ; 
and as a cold Summer fucceeded, and alike dry, in 
which the North Winds blew mod: frequently, and du- 
ring the hotted; Months of July and Auguft the Sky 
was covered with dark and black Clouds, the Earth 
w^as prepared for Frod: ; to which the remarkable Dri- 
nefs of the Seafon did not contribute a little, as Baro- 
metrical Experiments lhew,that a dry Air cools foon- 
er than a moid:, and is both heavier, and retains Cold 
longer. Neither does he think it altogether foreign 
to Truth, to reckon the remarkable Frequency of the 
Aurora Borealis to be a Prefage of a colder Winter 
li in ordinary, which has been obferved to be followed 
by 
