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56 to the Climate, is the Northern Light, or Aurora Borealis, which in the Spring of the Year, about the New Moon, darts Streams of Light all over the Sky, as quick as Lightning, epecially if it be a clear Night, with uch a Brightnes, that you may read by it, as by

At the Summer Soltice there is no Night, and you have the Pleaure to ee the Sun turn round about the Horizon all the 24 Hours; and in the Depth of Winter they have but little Comfort in that Planet, and the Nights are proportionably long; yet it never is o dark, but you can ee to travel up and down the Country, though ometimes it be neither Moonhine nor Starlight: but the Snow and Ice, with which both Land and Sea is covered, enlightens the Air; or the Reaon may be fetch'd from the Nearnes of the Horizon to the Æquator.

The Temperament of the Air is not unhealthful; for, if you except the Scurvy and