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ever to the illuftration of fo new a fubjec"l, muft doubtlefs have 

 been felt as tedious. We mall, therefore, conclude with ob- 

 ferving, that experiments of this kind fall moft properly under 

 the province of thofe philofbphers who live in climates where 

 the winter is of longer continuance, and attended with more 

 rigour, and a more permanent ferenity of the atmofphere. 

 Here, in this latitude, the opportunities are fo rare, and, when 

 they do occur, fo tranfient, that our progrefs in fuch an expe- 

 rimental enquiry muft advance only by flow fleps. To thofe, 

 therefore, more favoured by fituation, would we humbly re- 

 commend a farther profecution of a fubject, which, betides its 

 entire novelty, feems, upon feveral other accounts, to have a 

 claim to fome attention. 



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