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But if you will not credit what he faw, he after- 
wards mentions walking upon this ice: 
“ Nec vidiffe fat eft, udum calcavimus requor ; 
“ Undaque, non udo Jub pcdc, fumma fuit.” 
The fea thus frozen, not oniy bore Ovid who hath 
defcribed him felt to be very light and agile, but oxen 
and carriages puffed over it : 
“ Perque novos pontes, fubter labentibus undis, 
“ Ducunt Sarmatici barbara plauftra boves.” 
Lib. III. El. io. 
When the poor banifhed poet, during this rigorous 
weather, wanted fome generous wine to warm himfelf, 
it was prefented to him in a fbate of congelation : 
“ Udaque confiftunt formam fervantia teftaa 
“ Vina, nec haufta meri, fed datafrufta, bibunt.” 
This effed of cold was not experienced in London, 
fituated in the 52b degree of Northern latitude, during 
the great fro ft in 1740. 
Add to thefe proofs, that what he here mentions is 
not the effed of one particular hard and fevere winter; 
he complains from year to year of nearly the fame 
circumftances : 
“ Ut fumus in Ponto ter frigore conftitit Ifter, 
“ Fada eft Euxini dura ter unda marls.” 
Lib. I. El. 10. 
The fnow likewife in many places never diftolved 
during the fu miner : 
“ Quaeque nec hofte fero, nec nive terra cares.’’ 
“ Frigore perpetuo Sarmatis ora riget.” 
“ Et folet in multis bima manere locis.” 
I think therefore that what I have prefumed to 
conjedure, may be refted upon the fingle teftimony 
of 
