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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
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But
the
Empress,
seeing
they
could
not
agree
concerning
the
cause
of
Wind,
asked,
Whether
they
could
tell
how
Snow
was
made?
To
which
they
answered
That
according
to
their
observation,
Snow
was
made
by
a
commixture
of
Water,
and
some
certain
extract
of
the
Element
of
Fire
that
is
under
the
Moon;
a
small
portion
of
which
extract,
being
mixed
with
Water,
and
beaten
by
Air
or
Wind,
made
a
white
Froth
called
Snow;
which
being
after
some
while
dissolved
by
the
heat
of
the
same
spirit,
turned
to
Water
again.
This
observation
amazed
the
Empress
very
much;
for
she
had
hitherto
believed,
That
Snow
was
made
by
cold
motions,
and
not
by
such
an
agitation
or
beating
of
a
fiery
extract
upon
water:
Nor
could
she
be
perswaded
to
believe
it
until
the
Fish-
or
Mear-men
had
delivered
their
observation
upon
the
making
of
Ice,
which,
they
said,
was
not
produced,
as
some
hitherto
conceived,
by
the
motion
of
the
Air,
raking
the
Superficies
of
the
Earth,
but
by
some
strong
saline
vapour
arising
out
of
the
Seas,
which
condensed
Water
into
Ice;
and
the
more
quantity
there
was
of
that
vapour,
the
greater
were
the
Mountains
of
Precipices
of
Ice;
but
the
reason
that
it
did
not
so
much
freeze
in
the
Torrid
Zone,
or
under
the
Ecliptick,
as
near
or
under
the
Poles,
was,
that
this
vapour
in
those
places
being
drawn
up
by
the
Sun-beams
into
the
middle
Region
of
the
Air,
was
onely
condensed
into
Water,
and
fell
down
in
showres
of
Rain;
when
as,
under
the
Poles,
the
heat
of
the
Sun
being
not
so
vehement,
the
same
vapour
had
no
force
or
power
to
rise
so
high,
and
therefore
caused
so
much
Ice,
by
ascending
and
acting
onely
upon
the
surface
of
water.
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