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Stake to be a fort of Sea Flant, and the Strings its Roott growing in thcSe», as DuckWeeddoe&ynFonds. It may be reckon’d amongst the Potential• Cauteries : £or when we were one Day Becalm’d, the sportful People rubb’d

it on one anothers Hands and Faces, and where it Touch’d itwould makeit look very Red, and make lt Smart worse than a Nestle, In ray returafor England we flruck a Haivksbill-Twtfle, in whose Guts I found many osthese Carvels : So that ’tis manifest thcy Feed tbercon. .

•tbtiMir. The Cape call’d Cape Henry , lies in z6,. of the Nortb Latitude. TheAir and Temperature of the Seafons is muchGovern’d by Winds in Virgmia %i;both as to Heat and Ccld, Dryneß and Mosßure, whofe Variations are veryNotable, there being osten Great and Sudden Changes; The Nortb and,,Nortb-Weß are very A ttrous and Piercing , Cold and Clear, or eise Stormy • tThe South-Eafi and South , Hazy and Sultry Hot. Their Winter is aFine Clear Air, and Dry, which renders it very Pleasant; Their Frosts areShort, but foraetimes so very Sharp, that it.will Freeze the Rivers over3 Msles Broad ; ray, the Secretary of State assur’d tne, that it had frozenclever over Fotomack River, over against his House, where ’tis near 9 Mtles. broad. I have ob&rv’d it Freezes there the Hardest, whenfrom aMoist

South Fast, on a fodden the Wind paffing by the Nortb, a Nström IharpNartb-Weß blows; not with High Gusts, butwith a cutting Brisk Air ; andthofe Vales that scem then to be Shelter’d frora the Wind, and lieWarra,where the Air is tnost Stagnant and Moist, are Frozen the Hardest, andseiz’d theSoonest, and there the Frusts are more sobject to Blast than wherethe Air has a Free Motion. Snovs falls sometimes in pretty Quantity, butrarely Continues there above a Day or Two. Their Spring is about aMonth Earlier than in England. In April they have frequent Rains, some-times several short and sudden Gusts. May and June the Heat Increafcs:and itis much. like out Summer, being Mitigated with gentle Breezes, thatRKe about 9 of the Clack, and Decrease and Incline as the Sun Rises andFalls. July and Astguß thosc Breezes Cease, and the Air becomes Stag-nant : so that the Heat is Violent and Troublesome. In September theWeather usoally Breaks suddenly, and there falls generally very Considera-ble Rains. When the Weather Breaks many fall Ssck ; this being the Timeof an Epidemical Sickneß, for Seafonings, Cachexses, Fluxts, ScorbuticalDropßes, Gripes, or the like: which 1 have attributed to thisReason. Thatby the Extraordinary Heat the Ferment of the Bloodbemg Raised too High,and the Tone of the Stomach Relax d, when the Weather Ereah, the BloodPalls, and like Over-fermented L'quors is Depauperated, or Turas Eagerand Sharp, and there’s a Crude Dtgestion , whence the nam’d Dsßempersmay be luppos’d to Ensue. And for Confirmation I have Observ’d theCarminat ive Seeds, such as Warm, and whose Oy/stieaths the Acid Humoursthat ever resuit from Crude Digeßions ; But DecoÜions that Retain the Toneof the Stomach , as I suppose, by making the little Glatsds in the TuniclesoF the Stomach, Squeeze out their Juice, (forwhatis Bitterm ay be as wellOstensive to the Stomach as to the ? alate) and then Chdlibiates that raisethe decay’d Ferment, are no Bad Practice ; alter which, Iconceive, Ar-

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