Vegetable Stattcks . 8 3 
to fall till ten a clock in the morning* 
when the wind chopped about to the 
<c North-weft with incredible fiercenefs, 
<c and extream cold. Now it was that in- 
u numerable ftieep and other cattle were 
“ loft in the mountains of fnow 5 and ma- 
u ny poor people going that morning to 
€t look after their cattle, the remembrance 
ct of which is terrible, were equally fuf- 
“ ferers with them, being buried in the 
“ Snow. 
“ The Apricots and Teaches which were 
“ now in bloflom upon warm walls, were 
all deftroyed, and not only the Bloffoms, 
u but the Trees alfo, their bark burfting 
“ off. 
I have often obferved from thefe Ther- 
mometers, when that kind of hovering lam- 
bent log arifes, (either mornings or even™ 
ings) which frequently betokens fair wea- 
ther, that the air which in the preceding 
day was much warmer, has upon the al> 
fence of the fun become many degrees 
cooler than the furfaceof the earth; which 
being near 1500 times denfer than the air, 
cannot be fo foon affeded with the alter- 
nacies of hot and cold 3 whence 'tis pro- 
bable, that thofe vapours which are raifed 
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