The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England / By R[ob.] P[lot] LL.D.

  • Robert Plot
Date:
1677
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    cold ; Whence I think it may not be illogically concluded, That the colder the Air, the nearer to purity, and confequentially more healthy : Which is alfo very fuitable to the do&rine of Hip- pocrates, who fpeaking concerning the healthy fituation of Ci¬ ties, fays, That fuch which are placed to coldmnds, a <afam m tS'OLTK 7a o-K\n&lli *) ® yAVKOjVtTZtl.tUi $’ (pdAotk % tncAiii. e. that though their Waters are harjb and cold, yet for the moftpart they are fweet, and the Inhabitants healthy and brisks found, and free from defluxions. And fo indeed in the main I find them here, of a very chearful humor, affable, and courteous in their Deportment; neither fparing, nor profufe in their Entertainments, but of a generous temper i fuitable to the fweet and healthful Air they live in : Whereas the Inhabitants of fenny and boggy Countries, whofe Spirits are clogg dwith perpetual Exhalations, are generally of a more ftupid, andunpleafant convex- Cation. J • ? • ■ t t 3. That the qualities of Waters and Soyls, together with the fituations of places to the refpe&ive Quarters of the World, make them more Or lefs healthy,according to the greatb Hippocra¬ tes, there is no doubt. But to thefe I muftbeg the favor of ad¬ dings not only more fwafive but more irrefragable proof; I mean, the great age and conftant health of perfons that have been lately^ and are now living here: Richard Clifford, not long fince of Eol- foot in .this County, died at 114 years of age: Briart Stephens? born at Cherlbury? but Inhabitant of Woodftock.? dyedlaft year at 103; Where alfo there now lives one GeorgeGreen (but botn at EnJJjam) in his hundredth year : at Kidlingtoti one Mns Hill was born, and lived there above an hundred years: and at Oxford there is living, belide feveral near it, a Woman (commonly called Mother George) now in her hundredth year current. The pleafant fituation of which City is fuch, and fo anfwerable to the great Reputation it ever had in this refpeft, that it mull not by any means be paft by in lilence. v 4. Seated it is on a riling Ground, in the rtiidft of a pleafant and fruitful Valley of a large extent, at the confluence, and ex* tended between the two Rivers of Ifis and Cherwell, with which it is encompafs’d on the Eafl, Weft, and South ; as alfo, with a ridge of Hills at a miles (or fomwhatmore) diftance, in the form Hi])pOcr. tts* dlpaV) itdmy rs7mv. t> Id. ibid1.
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