The prefaces, proverbs, and poems of Benjamin Franklin : originally printed in Poor Richard's almanacs for 1733-1758 / collected and edited by Paul Leicester Ford.

  • Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The prefaces, proverbs, and poems of Benjamin Franklin : originally printed in Poor Richard's almanacs for 1733-1758 / collected and edited by Paul Leicester Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    notwithstanding this, in 4 or 5 Hours After the Fire is out, the inside of the Walls and Bed-places will be 2 or 3 Inches thick with Ice, which is every Morning cut away with a Hatchet. Three or Four Times a Day, Iron Shot, of 24 Pounds Weight, are made red hot, and hung up in the Windows of their Apart- ments, to moderate the Air that comes in at the Crevices ; yet this with a Fire kept burning the greatest Part of 24 Hours, will not prevent Beer, Wine, Ink, etc. from Freezing. For their Winter Dress, a Man makes use of three Pair of Socks, of coarse Blanketting, or Duffeld, for the Feet, with a Pair of Deerskin Shoes over them ; two pair of thick English stockings, and a pair of Cloth Stockings upon them ; Breeches lined with Flannel; two or three English Jackets, and a Fur, or Leather Gown over them ; a large Beaver Cac, double, to come over the Face and Shoulders, and a Cloth of Blanketting under the Chin ; with Yarn Gloves, and a large pair of Beaver Mit- tins, hanging down from the Shoulders before, to put the Hands in, reaching up as far as the Elbows. Yet notwithstanding this warm Cloth- ing, those that stir abroad when any Wind blows from the Northward, are dreadfully frozen; some have their Hands, Arms, and Face blistered and froze in a dreadful Manner,