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The Fogs and Mills that are brought here from the 
Polar Parts, in Winter, appear vifible to the naked 
Eye in Icicles innumerable, as fmall as fine Hairs or 
Threads, and pointed as fharp as Needles. Thefe 
Icicles lodge in our Cloaths, and if our Faces or Hands 
be uncovered, they prefently raife Blifters as white as 
a Linen Cloth, and as hard as Horn. Yet if we imme- 
diately turn our Backs to the Weather, and can bear 
our Hand out of our Mittin, and with it rub the 
biiftered Part for a fmall time, we fometimes bring 
the Skin to its former State : If not, we make the belt 
of our Way to a Fire, and get warm Water, where- 
with we bathe it, and thereby difiipate the Humours 
raifed by the frozen Air ; otherwife the Skin would 
be off in a fhort time, with much hot, ferous, watry 
Matter coming from under along with the Skin ; and 
this happens to fome almoft every time they go 
abroad for Five or Six Months in the Winter, fo 
extreme cold is the Air when the Wind blows any 
thing ftrong. 
Now I have obferved, that when it has been ex- 
treme hard Froft by the Thermometer, and little or 
no Wind that Day, the Cold has not near fo fenfibly 
affected us, as when the Thermometer has flhewed 
much lefs freezing, having a brisk Gale of Northerly 
Wind at the fame time. This Difference may per- 
haps be occafioncd by thofe fharp-pointed Icicles be- 
fore-mentioned ftriking more forcibly in a windy 
Day, than in calm Weather, thereby penetrating the 
naked Skin, or Parts but thinly covered, and caufing 
an acute Senfation of Pain or Cold : And the fame 
Reafon, I think, will hold good in other Places} for 
fhould the Wind blow Northerly any thing hard for 
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