An account of the providential preservation of Eliz. Woodcock : who survived a confinement under the snow, of nearly eight days and nights, in the month of February 1799 ... / by Thomas Verney Okes.

  • Okes, Thomas Verney
Date:
[1799?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the providential preservation of Eliz. Woodcock : who survived a confinement under the snow, of nearly eight days and nights, in the month of February 1799 ... / by Thomas Verney Okes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 0* ] totally out of her power to get to it, or to pro¬ cure any part of its contents. It is very certain then that fhe owed her fubfiffence to no other natural means than the fnow. Another reflection cannot but occur to every reader, upon the mold curfory perufal of what has beenfaid; and this refpe<fls the great danger there is of travel¬ ing late in the evening of the fhort days, efpe- cially in the molt fevere weather of the winter feafon. Prudence, and a regard for her own fafety, ought furely to have prevented E. W. venturing from home on fo bad a day. Or if fhe thought it abfolutely neceflary to go,* it would have been a much better plan to have taken fome perfon with her, or have contrived to accompany fome of her towns-people both to and from Cam¬ bridge. But without any hefltation or precautions of this kind, file fet out, though of a flender, deli¬ cate make, to ride alone, two miles at leaft, to market, along an uneven road, on a day too, one of the mold cold, fnowy, and tempcftuous that, perhaps, was almofl ever known in this climate. On her return fhe was encumbered with a bufhel * “ Sive Aquilo radit terras feu bruma nivalem “ Interiore Diem Gyro trahit, ire neceffe eft.” * Hor. Sat, 6. B. z*