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Beginning of St. Philip'?, Fafr, which falls 
on the fifteenth of November; and the 
day for confecrating the holy water, which 
among us is the Twelfth-Day, or iixth of 
January. During thefe feven weeks they 
faid it generally rains hard and con- 
tinually On the ifla'nd, and all that time 
the cold is very moderate; but after this 
rainy feafon it becomes intolerably fe- 
vere, efpecially when the wind is fouth. 
This will appear extraordinary, as in moll 
countries this is a warm wind, whilfl 
its oppofite the north wind is cold; but 
here it rauft be confidered, that the fouth 
winds came to our iflanders over Europe, 
and particularly the northern parts of it^ 
which in winter are generally covered with 
fnow and ice, whence it contracts this cx- 
ceffive coldnefs. The north wind, on 
the contrary, came to them from the 
ocean, and inilead of increafing the cold, 
carried along with it the vapours from the 
lea, which are always lefs frigorific 
than thofe from fnow. It is indeed a fact 
well known on the fea-coafts, that the 
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