(Vol. ii., p. 262. Vol. iii., p. 25.)
Your correspondent J. M. G. quotes _Hudibras_, p. i. c. i. l. 147.:
"Where truth in person does appear,
Like words congeal'd in northern air."
Zachary Grey does _not_, in his note, refer to Mandeville, but he says:
"See an explication of this passage, and a merry account of words
freezing in Nova Zembla, _Tatler,_ No. 254.; and Rabelais' account of
the bloody fight of the Arimasphians and Nephelebites upon the confines
of the Frozen Sea (vol. iv. c. 56. p. 229., Ozell's edit. 1737). To
which Mr. John Done probably refers, in his panegyric upon T. Coryat,
and his Crudities:
'It's not that French which made his giants see,
Those uncouth islands, where words frozen be,
Till by the thaw next year they've voice again."