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that in the year 401 thcEuxine Sea was covered with 
ice, for twenty days together. Thefe fadls, therefore, 
{truck him, as extraordinary. 
Mottraye was in Crim Tartary, in the year 1711, 
during the months of November and December } who 
is alfo entirely filent, with regard to any uncommon 
effects of cold. 
Thefe are all the travellers, whofe works I have 
looked into, or could procure on this occafion. I do 
not take upon my felt to fay, that there may not be 
others, which have efcaped me 5 but I fhould not 
fuppofe the number to be great, as the Euxine Sea, 
and its neighbourhood, neither anfwers to the Euro- 
pean traveller, in point of curiofity or commerce. 
I have faid in the outlet, that I have fome particular 
reafons, for fixing chiefly on Tomos, to make this 
companion ; which arifes from the country being 
precilely in the fame hate that it was in the time of 
Ovid ; this entirely excludes the common obferva- 
tion, that the cultivation of a country will render the 
climate more temperate. 
We will now leave Tomos, and compare the ac- 
counts of the weather in Italy, with thofe of the pre- 
lent times : it being firil premifed, that the country 
was better cultivated, in the Auguftan age, than it is 
now, which fhould confequently have made the tem- 
perature of the air more warm than it is now expe- 
rienced to be. 
The queries propofed to your fon Mr. Watfon re- 
late to this companion, and have occafioned my trou- 
bling you with ibis length of letter, fince I have within 
thele few days been fortunate enough to procure, 
through other hands, the information I could have 
wiflied on this head. 
I Avail 
