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many Days together in England , the Icicles that 
would be brought from the Polar Parts by the 
Continuance of .fuch a Wind, though impercep- 
tible to the naked Eye, would more l'enftbly affedt 
the naked Skin, or Parts but (lightly covered, than 
when the Thermometer has (hewn a greater Degree 
of freezing, and there has been little or no Wind at 
the fame time. 
It is not a little furprifing to many, that fuch ex- 
treme Cold fhould be felt in thefe Parts of America , 
more than in Places of the fame Latitude on the 
Coaft of Norway ; but the Difference I take to be 
occafioncd by Wind blowing conftantly here, for 
Seven Months in the Twelve, between the North- 
eaft and North- weft, and palling over a large Tradt 
of Land, and exceeding high Mountains, &c. as be- 
fore-mentioned. Whereas at Drunton in Norway , 
as I obferved fome Years ago in wintering there, the 
Wind all the Winter comes from the North and 
North North-weft, and erodes a great Part of the 
Ocean clear of thofe large Bodies of Ice we find here 
perpetually. At this Place we have conftantly every 
Year Nine Months Froft and Snow, and unfufferable 
Cold from October till the Beginning of May. In 
the long Winter, as the Air becomes lefs ponderous 
towards the Polar Parts, and nearer to an (^Equili- 
brium, as it happens about One Day in a Week, we 
then have Calms and light Airs all round the Com- 
pafs, continuing fometimes 24 Hours, and then back 
to its old Place again, in the fame manner as it 
happens every Night in the Weft-Indies, near fome 
of the Klands. 
The' 
