[or-roots] Palatines

[Bill & Chris Strickland]

Does anyone know the actual origins of this almost seemingly "boiler 
plate" quote  that appears all over the internet, occasionally ascribed 
to the obsolete website 
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3955/palatine.htm and never listed 
with an actual Source?

    " The winter of 1708-1709 was very long and cold in the Rhineland. 
It was a very bleak period ... "

How's that for a change of Subject?

Bill Strickland