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I. The Hijlory^ of the Gnat Frofl in the lajl Win^ 
ter xyo% and 170*. By the 'l^yer end Mr ', 
W. Derham, KeElor of Upminller^ Jh, !?(. S, 
T his Fampus Society hayiag done me the Honour 
to put into my Hands their Papers tel at in g to the 
late Great Froft, and having, alio my felf received divers 
Relations thereof from my Friends a<- Home and Abroad, 
as well as made Gbfervarid'ns my felf, I (hall , endeavour 
to give an Account of Two Things' 3 ‘T;6V F>egne^ and^ 
of this Remarl^able Frofi, . 
The Degree of the Frojl in England. 
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As to this Matter, I bfelieve this Froft was greater (if 
not more univerlal alfo) than any other within the Me- 
mory of Man. The greateft that hath happen’d within 
our Memory^^ was the Long Frojl in 168^ 3 but the late 
Froft, although of ftiorfer doritirioance, was more in- 
tenfe than that. Of which I have already given fome 
Account in a former Paper (which I find in the Tranf- 
aBions^ No. 521.J and rauft be forced to Recapitulate 
It here 3 v\%. That 'rhy Thermometer was much lower on 
December 30. dian' it had^ ever been fince 1697. when I 
firft began my Thetmometticaf Obfervations 3 That the 
felf-fame Thermometer inour.Repofitory in GreJham^CoX- 
lege was lower than ever it was before : [The Particulars - 
of its greateft DcfcentS'v.are the fe 3 January 26. 1696. 
41. Gr. January 5.’f^83.; "40 Gr. and January 170^. 
43 Gr.] And laftly, that in another felf-fame Glafs in 
• London 
