The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 88
afons,theGaufesas well of Summer as Winter, arecontufedand corrupt. Andthis is the reafon alfo, that lightnings are common in our Italic j for that the aire being moremoveable and wauering,by reafon of a kinder Winter and a cloudie Summer, is alwaies of thetemperature of Spring or Autumne*… … Chap. l1, E ^Sttndyy forts &f Lightmngs^andWofidifs there of Erie many kinds of Lightnings are fet downe by Authours. Thofe thatcome drie, burne not at all, but onely diffipate and difpcarfc. They that comemoift,burnc not neitherjbutblaft things,and make them looke duskifh.Nowa third kind there…
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