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of them have loft to the Value of 8oA iod/. year. 
200 /. 
But the rnoft exa^ Account I have met with, is from 
that accnrare Botanift of the Oxford Phyfick-Garden, 
Ut. Ja.Boharf, in a Letter to the ingenious W.J. Thorpe^ 
F. R. S. in which he takes notice'. That the I>amrnage5 
of this Froft do not come up to thofe in 1683 • which 
Froft being of' longer- continuance, cleft the Oal{s^ anl 
Bodies of the Vims, But in the laft Froft there., 
were Intervals of Relaxation, befides feveral confidcrable 
Snows, which proved a good Guard to many Plants. 
But the Snow melting, and the Cold withal coni huing,... 
proved of evil Confequenee to many Bulbous and Tube-. 
rous Pvoots, and abundance of other Things. “ But (he 
faith) the (harp, dry, and cutting Winds from the. 
“ North, and North-Eaft, were moft Deftrudtive to ma~ 
“ ny of the Ornaments of our Cardens, which before - 
‘‘'Teenrfd fo good Natur’d, as to be almoft naturaliz’d to . 
our Clime 5 -as Cyfrefs, Bays, Rofemarj, Alattrmy Bhillyr 
rcTs, Arbuti^ Lafirfijlinesy See. as alfo to moft of our ■: 
‘‘ Frutefeent Herbs, fuch as Lavsffders, AhrGto?inws^ Rne^ 
^^Tyme, and divers others of fuch Race, efpecially fuch 
“ as had their Heads above the kind coveting of the Snow:. 
“ And not luch Exoticks only, but fome of our own Na-. 
tives, as is vifible in moft of our Furze-fiA dr^ and di-‘ ■ 
vers Holl/esy efpecially of the finer ftrip'd Race, have 
“‘ felt thefmart of fuch the Vigour of the Seafon, by the 
“‘lofs of ‘their Leaves, beautiful enough, and rometimea- 
“ -their Lives, 
“ And what (he faith)’ hath been more obfervable this 
“ Yearj^than in others, is. The Sap of our finer mural 
“ Fruit-Trees, as of Peaches^ AkBarifies^ Jpri€ocI{Sy &r, . 
“ was fo congealed and djfo dered', that it proved ftagna- 
“ ted in the Limbs and Branches, and equal to ChilU 
“ blains in Humane Bodies^ which in too many Parts of 
“ the Tree, turned to fo frequent Mortifications, that it 
“ ii very much to be doubted whether fuliicient Vigour 
