Three or four
Times a Day, Iron Shot, of 24 Pounds Weight, are made red hot, and
hung up in the Windows of their Apartments, to moderate the Air that
comes in at Crevices; yet this, with a Fire kept burning the greatest
Part of 24 Hours, will not prevent Beer, Wine, Ink, _&c._ from
Freezing.
For their Winter Dress, a Man makes use of three Pair of Socks,
of coarse Blanketting, or Duffeld, for the Feet, with a Pair of
Deerskin Shoes over them; two Pair of thick _English_ Stockings, and
a Pair of Cloth Stockings upon them; Breeches lined with Flannel; two
or three _English_ Jackets, and a Fur, or Leather Gown over them; a
large Beaver Cap, double, to come over the Face and Shoulders, and a
Cloth of Blanketting under the Chin; with Yarn Gloves, and a large
Pair of Beaver Mittins, hanging down from the Shoulders before, to
put the Hands in, reaching up as high as the Elbows. Yet
notwithstanding this warm Clothing, those that stir Abroad when any
Wind blows from the Northward, are sometimes dreadfully frozen; some
have their Hands, Arms, and Face blistered and froze in a terrible
Manner, the Skin coming off soon after they enter a warm House, and
some lose their Toes. And keeping House, or lying-in for the Cure of
these Disorders, brings on the Scurvy, which many die of, and few are
free from; nothing preventing it but Exercise and stirring Abroad.
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