had been a farie which semd very strange to me, that had so often seene a strong Current set in or out between those Castles as the wind drove it. For there is no manner of Tide in all the sea, when I was on the top of Helsingburg Castle lookeing towards the Cate-gate or [ '[Or][unclear]' deleted] Sinus Codanus I could see no sea, but all was Ice and Snow; but within a few days a strong wind broke it all open, but it presently froze again when the wind was laid. our envoy at Stockholm said, that very many Country people were frozen to Death this winter in Sweden, travelling in their Slides, that young Count Duglesse hunting with that king, had his brain frozen & dyed. That the king himself had one cheeck mortified, but was presently cured by the usuall application of snow. That his own Cooke haveing boild a piece of beeffe over a great fire, for two howers together, but takeing it out to cutt it to make a hotch pot of it, thô it was boild enough on the outside, found it all raw within, & still frozen. This King of Denmark riding out in the frost, as he does allmost every day, had the skin of his face so seared with the cold, that most of the skin came off. But thô I have been very much on the Ice this winter, either sliding or playing at [ 'Goffe' deleted] Gole yet I thanke God I never met