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fiS for other Waters, they alfo bad their (hare 5 efped- 
ally where they lay expofed to the Northerly and North 
Eafterly Winds. Nay, the Sea-waters themfelves efcaped 
not, but were covered with Ice in many Places near the 
Shore, in Harbours, and where they lay calm and (till. 
Of this I have already given a pregnant Inftance in the 
Harbour of Copenhagen, and the Sea between Denmark 
find Sshonen. And in a Letter from Dr. Newton^ Her 
Majefty’s Illuftrious and Learned Envoy at Florence, 
he tells me, “ The Sea was frozen both on the Coaft of 
Genoa and Legorne, 
As for the Northern Parts of Germany, the laft cited 
DifTertanon gives this Account of its Effeds on Fluids: 
Aejna infra fulitam profnnditatem in glaciem ahiit, ^ alii 
liquores congelati apparmre, qui alias extra congelationis 
pericnlum media hyeme confiitunntHr^ Pertinet hue Fons in 
quodam Sileji£ p^go, qttl cum alias ajiate frigidus-, hyeme 
calidus deprehendatur, hac tamen hyeme fpijffa fatis glacie non 
Jine omnium admiratione ohdu&us fuit> Certe l^()vell£ pub~ 
lic£ aliquoties 1 her mas tn glaciem converfas nunciarunt : Id 
quod tamen calidioribus non accidit Halse Jirias fonti’‘ 
bus falfts adh£rentes vidimus^ id quod intra feculi ambitum 
non contigiffe firtur. Per literas me certiorem reddidit 
D. Breynius, in urbe patria Medicus celeberrimus, Soc, Reg. 
Ang. Soc. &c. ipfummare, quoufque oculor urn lacks etiam ar~ 
mata penetrare poterat, adhuc d, 8. Aprilis glacie teCtum fk- 
iffe. Cum is Lixivium cineribus clavellatis ad faturitatem 
ferme impr£gnatnm aeri expofuijfet, licet nnnqnam congelare 
ab hominibus, qui pluribus annis ad traUaverant, ajfereretur, 
brevi tamen tempore in glaciem converfum ej/e expertus. Ad^ 
dit, ami cum quendam fuum Tartari quoque fpiritum de phlegm- 
matum congelatum obfervajfe, Referunt obfervationes Ha- 
lenfes Sputum ex ore vix dimijfum in glaciem abiens 
Fluvii ter in glaciem abiere^ etiam iUi^ quibus ob celerita* 
tern, qui feruntur, frigfts alias non infejium. Thus far 
jD- Remus. 
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