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of Ovid ; but, as there is with fome fo flrong prejudice 
againft fads from fucli a quarter, I £hali endeavour'to 
corroborate this authority, by defcriptions of the fame 
country, which we find in other writers of thofe cen- 
turies. 
His contemporary Virgil fpeaks thus of the effe&s 
of cold in the fame latitude : 
“ Caeduntque fecuribus humida vina, 
“ Sciriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis.” 
Georg. Lib. III. 1. 349. & feq. 
He likewife aflerts that the fnow. 
* e Septem aflurgit in ulnas.” 
Virgil indeed isalfo unfortunately a poet; but his 
Georgies are perpetually relied upon as authority, not 
only by Pliny, but the later writers on hufhandry. 
Such credit is given to our own great delcriptive 
poet Thomfon, that the compilers of the Encyclope- 
dic have almofl: entirely tran flatted his Seafons , under 
the article Zone: nor is there perhaps a circumflance 
mentioned throughout thofe poems, which the moll 
fcrupulous, and minute naturalifl may not rely upon. 
I lliall juft mention the authority of one more poet, 
as he is fcarccly more than a metrical geographer: 
Dionyfius, in deferibing the fame country, fpeaks 
thus of the flow’s never melting : 
1'^btXioi ct tztsqi x&vcv evoiKia (pureg zyxcri. 
A<« cQiv tyvxffl ts yjuVi fyupog tz Surutjg. 
nspnjyfjcrjf, 1. 668. 
T fhall clofe thele corroborating proofs of the cold 
which was experienced at Tomos, by a paflage from 
another geographer, who is fufliciently profaic not to 
admit of any objection, to his teflimony, on account 
of a too lively imagination : 
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