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ment ; which is, however, in itself of an extremely delicate 

 nature, and which frequently does not answer in the way in 

 which we put the question ; for this reason, that it is the nature 

 of all experience not to give a satisfactory answer, except to 

 questions very well instituted. 



However, we are commonly in haste to draw conclusions ; and 

 men had not even thought of improving the instruments, and 

 much less the methods of observing, when already the lesser as 

 well as the greater questions of meteorology, had been investi- 

 gated, if not considered as resolved, on the sole ground of obser- 

 vations, either insufficient, or suspicious, or which did not really 

 say a word of what they were made to say. 



( To he continued.') 



Article IV. 



Register of the Rain at Bombay in the East Indies, measured 

 with lioivard's Pluviometer daily at 1 a.m. By Benjamin 



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