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In that Paper alfo 1 have foreftall’d my felf , and fa id 
to what Excefs the Froft arrived in Italy, viz. “ That 
the Cold there was fo greatj that for 20 Years pafi they 
had not been (enfible of greater, and on Twdfth^Day 
it wanted but half a Degree of the Extremity. 
As to the ^Northern Parts^ the before commended 
Dr. Woodward tells me, that in a Letter he received from 
the Learned Mr. Otho Sperling., from Copenhagen dated 
April 6 . 1 700. he calleih it Hyems Atrocijfima. And I 
find it noted in the Minutes of the Royal Society of May 
4. 1709. “ That Dr. JWjVW faid the Ice was frozen 
“ in the Harbour of Copenhagen ay Inches^ and that 
April 9. N. S: People had gone over between Schone 
“ and Denmark, on the Ice. Which Accounts give me a 
better Opinion of fonle Papers I have by me, which 
were Ihew’d'^o' the Society, concerning the Froft Sit Co- 
penhagen^ pretended to be taken from the Obfervations 
of Mr. Romer, ’ I ftiould not entertain any the leaft di- 
ftruft of the Accuracy either of the Inftruments, or Ob- 
fervations of that Eminent Perfon, were 1 fure they were 
his# But there are fome Paflages and Hints in thofe Pa- 
pers that leffened others, as well as ray Opinion about 
them. ’Tis faid there, That fuch a Froft hath not 
been known in the Memory of Man in thefe Countries, 
“ and that the Froft on January 7. and February 25. 170J. 
did very nearly approach the Point of Artificial Freez- 
ing. 
In the Northern Parts of Germany alfo I find they had ' 
the fame fare with their Neighbours of Denmark'^ Of • 
which I have an Ingenious printed Account put into my x 
Hands by the foremention’d Dr, Woodward, The Title 
of the Book is, Con^deratio PhyfctfMdthematica Hyemis . 
proxime Pr£tbrlapf^., &G. being an Academical Exercile 
performed in the Univerfity of Hall, June 13. 1709. by 
G. Remus a Dantzicker, and Printed at the fame Place 
{HaU Magdeburgica.^ ‘ ThisDilTertation relating dire£fly 
to : 
