OF CORNWALL. „ 
vegetation is at a Hand till the tone of the veffels is reftored. 
nder fhelters, and at a few miles diltance from the fea, trees 
offer lefs ; but all, I think, in fome degree, as they ihew by 
tanmg from the fea winds ; fo that without great induftry in 
rai ing re ters, and great attention to the care and repair of them 
W en rais d > we are not likely to fee our hills planted, nor hedge- 
rows of tall trees make a figure in Cornwall, as they do in fome 
the n fea S ’blafts USh &ther ^ fUn ’ becaufe lefs ex P ofed to 
Our winters in Cornwall are far milder than in any part of sect.v. 
Eng. and : Myrtles, of whatever kind, are in no want of green- So *“ ” iR 
loufo , and it now and then, through the feverity of an extra- 
t , ar y COid feafon > their upper (hoots are killed by the froft, cut 
f i r ° ' K:ar to t‘ e ground, and they will fprout plentifully in 
the fucceeding fpring, and make as good plants as they were before. 
Ve have no (bowers of exceffive large hail in Cornwall, as they 
V f In , tJe 111 ant P arts > and fnow feldom lies more than three 
or four days, which is to be attributed partly to our fea-air, which 
yie.ds not nitre and otner fliarp falts, in fufficient quantity to 
In- 6 ° Ur , r01 s and congelations in the atmofphere extreme and 
f J^ nd If in lefs de g ree . to our latitude, which is 
more th nm r ,,° f al ‘ En S' an f How ever, when the winters are 
fee!s it in ni UfUa > ' C0ld , m ° ther P a «s of the Ifland, Cornwall 
ea 7 ao P a°t P r '°ft '° V an<l “ fituation - the 
at fd' nftm as began a mod violent cold, after two or 
tmee days of blufter.ng North Baft Winds : on the a 9 th of De- 
cember it froze very hard, the next day it began to fnow, and the 
windows of m y little greenhoufe being accidentally open, the 
range trees and Jeffinmnes were killed to the very roots by the 
and theTnwl ^ e , Xtremit y of the we ather lafted a full month, 
bu? fuel W y m r u nC C , 0merS ° f the fields ful1 two months ; 
the ^ C ° rnWal1 - tHe ^ 
(trees In dm taie nheits Thermometer was not under forty de- 
December the thirty lift, in WdXft^ ^ ^ ^ 
Pnew °:r? "Y “7% ®iU. our Spring for the fame reafon 
fcws itfdf early m buds and bloffoms, but I think it’s progtefs 
th '° fY as . e ew e re > fo r as there is a languid kind of Spring 
hroughont the winter, (chiefly, indeed, in the funny fouthern lands) 
n cCw S alL l n r Ca 7 0t 7 “ to be fo in ° ther eou «ies as 
other Zd L’ 6 wmter ' s over > and the Spring begins in 
efforts and col ' ntles > 1 apprehend, it makes much ftronger 
’ 3nd < l uicker advances, than with us ; the repofe of The 
winter, 
