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' but principally from the Winds fliaking and 
"them at the fame time, which rent and pan 
Fibres. 
Thefe have been fomc of the mofl: remarkable Ef- 
fects of the Froft on the Vegetables of the more Smtherly 
Parts oFour Ifland, the Northerly (as hath been obferved) 
^reaping better ^ as will appear by another part of the 
foremen tioned Letter of Sir Rob» Sibbald in thefe Words: 
“ The Corn did not rife, and ripen fo foon as vvont^ 
but, Bleffed be God, there hath been a plentiful Har- 
veft, well brought into the Barns and Yards. And 
“ the Price of Victuals fwhich was high) falls lower 
daily. There was no greater* number of thofe who 
“ died, than was ufual during the Winter formerly. 
As to other Places, I find the Effects were, in the mqre 
Southerly Parts of Europe^ much tiij fame on their Ve- 
getables as in ours. In Italy my forementioned Illuftri- 
‘•ous Friend, Dr. Newton faith, “ Almoff all the Lemn 
and Orange-Trees^ with thofe of the like kind, are de- 
" ftroyed in this Country by the Froft, and a great ma- ' 
ny Olive-Tree's. The Leaves of the BajVJrees have the 
“ fame Colour now, as all others have w hen they are 
falling in O&ober. Befides which Cilarmtics upon Ve- 
getables, there are two other Difafters he tells me 
-owing probably to the Froft, which Iftiall menrion here, 
for want of a more convenient Place to bring them im One • 
is a Difafter that happen’d at TLorence^ where on the 
fide of a Hill were formerly many Buildings, which 
twice falling down, by the Earth giving way, a Wall 
“ was Ereded in the time of this Great Duke’s Grandfa- , 
‘‘ ther, with an Infer! ption on the Wall, which fepa rates 
‘‘ the Ground from the next Street, that for the future 
“ no Perfon fhould build there. After the Great Froft, 
“ this Wall hath fallen down too. The Hill is full of 
Stones, and they will have it, that as thofe increafe, 
the Ground is pufhed forward, and thereby thrown 
down 
rocking 
their 
