Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, Jan. 5.
“Last Saturday they were forced to put fifteen horses to the machine to draw it up Butcher-hill, near Petersfield, and Gravel-hill, near the same place; and a poor man that came from Petersfield to assist the people of the machine, was found dead on his return the next day, having perished with cold. The snow is so deep, and so intense the frost, the like has not been known in the memory of man; and ‘tis like to continue.”