6 34 Df. guthrie on the Antifeptic Regimen 
and perhaps you may think with me, that there are fome 
articles in it which, from their Cheapnefs and antifcor- 
butic qualities, might be permitted to accompany, for 
trial, their old Northern companion four cabbage, who 
has, I fuppofe, been met with ftraggling in Germany", 
where he w T as lingly able to make head againft all the 
dangers that their climate threatened ; although in our 
more frigid realms it requires his whole united phalanx 
to keep us in fafety. 
However, after faying every thing of and for the food 
made ufe of by the people inhabiting the Northern parts 
of this extended empire, I muft not omit to give the 
fhare of merit that I think is due to fome cuftoms that I 
hinted at in the beginning, and which probably have 
their lhare in effecting the great end treated of in this 
letter. Thefe are their cloathing, baths, and manner of 
fleeping. 
In the firft place, they go very warmly cloathed when 
out of doors, although they wear nothing but a fhirt 
and a pair of linen drawers when within ; the legs and 
feet in particular are remarkably guarded againft the 
cold by many plies of coarfe flannel, with a pair of 
boots over all, at the fame time that their bodies feel all 
the warmth of fheep-fkin coats, and nothing is left open 
to the action of the air but the face and neck, which 
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