METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL FOR 1807j$. 3Q£ 



will arrange themselves in sucb a manner* that the bates : 

 will always be united to the respective ucids which stand 

 nearest to them. 



I am, Sir, 

 Welbech Street, Your very obedient servant, 



22 March, 1809, THOMAS YOUNG. 



CONTENTIO AQUATICA ; VICTORIA,* ReQUIES. 



ReBARisne modo posse ad/bre £ellica rosTRa? 

 t)es nautam satis apta ci6o re/bvere aLiMenta ; 

 Cor superest sunum ; f\ab\tq\ie oPTatus abunDe 

 £piritus; has ammi ira/eret iibi acerr'iMA GAZas. 



Ast BRONfes mnmosus acer^o /bed erepaLMas 

 Csesus fort: utpro rebus monet ap'ra soDales ! 

 Si posshy fato tu&icen iweMor addat honores. 

 Postulat ossd relaia, heu ! flebite c07*dere mArMor. 

 Spes est f\xa, bonum cceli GAzis fruiturum. 



ALMa huic pax fiat or6i, l&ss'is o/nwipoTens Des 

 O pater! Ut flebo jussus cawere ar/wigenuM vim! 

 Dire opi/ex &elli, cesses wor?«AM abjicere oinnem, 

 Pax fessos bona, wiuleet, GAZas laetior auri. 



proesuMAM GAZaj nempe ad/ere rursus ab alto hue; 

 Mira da6it lucra pax, foxt&ssis in ulti/HA Muudi. 



XV. 



An Abstract of a MeteorologicalJournal for the Years 1807 

 and 1 808, kept at Middleshaw near Kendal, in Latitude 

 54° 20'. By John Gough, Esq. 



Y object in communicating the following table to the The object of 



Philosophical Journal is, to turn the attention of meteoro- lhe communi * 



o • i-i cation, 



logists to two points of their tavourite science, which per- 

 haps have been too superficially examined. One of these 

 points is the diurnal variation of temperature at different 

 times of the year. 



This is a subject of which we have a very imperfect 

 knowledge; and the reason is obvious: for the variation 

 in question is not easily determined by the common 

 thermometer, at least in summer, because the sun coio- 



Vol. XXII.— April, 1809. X, moid/ 



