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But the Emperess 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 Emperess 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 had 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 or 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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| And if any should like the world I have made,
and be willing to be my subjects, they may imagine themselves such, and they are such—I mean
in their minds, fancies or imaginations. But if they cannot endure to be subjects, they may
create worlds of their own and govern themselves as they please.
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| © 2025 by Sarah Reitmeier, except text from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, published 1666 by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
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