., ( 457 ) 
The other Letter is from Nove/»Ber 5. 1709.'' 
from a very Curious and Ingenious perfon, Sir Robert 
SibbM'^ who faith, “ I can learn no extraordinary Ef* 
“ feds of the cold Searon here. Ic was a long Winter * 
The Cold came early in O^ober, and continued till 
“ near There was much Snow, which lay long 
‘‘ upon our South Hills near this Place. We had not 
“ much Froft to fpeak of, and it laded not long. There 
was but little Sport at Curling upon the Ice Sport 
in Scotland, ufual in hard Frofts, when the Ice can 
bear a great Company of People.] 
And as in Scotland^ fo in Ireland the Froft was very 
favourable: Of which among other things, I have this 
Account in a Letter from Dublin, from Mr. S, Molyneaux, 
a very curious and ingenious Gentleman there^ who faith] 
They had there an harder Winter than ufual, but judg- 
“ eth they fuffered not fo much as their Neighbours : 
“ They had two or three pretty hard Frofts, and fome 
Snow, but not of any remarkable continuance, as here- 
‘‘ members. 
The Degree of the Frofl in other Farts of Europe. 
Having thus related how the Cafe was near Home, 
let us next look farther Abroad, and firft into the more 
Southerly Parts of Europe. 
And in the Comparifon I have already given the Socie- 
ty between L)r. Scheuchzeri Obfervations at Zurich and 
mine here, I faid, That he noted the Cold to have been 
excellive there 5 but whether more chan ufual, he faith 
not. But by a Letter I have lately feen from his Brother 
(of which more by and by) it appears to have been in 
as great and unufual Excefs thexe^ as here it was with 
us. . ' 
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