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calculated to supply a desideratum long and universally acknow- 

 ledged, and which may be described, in a word, as the simple appli- 

 cation of the expansive force of one body of water, while freezing, to 

 counteract the destructive consequences which are the ordinary cha- 

 racteristics of another. 



Climate and Mortality of Glasgow, 1851. By Robert Dundas 

 Thomsoj^", F.R.S.E., Lecturer on Chemistry in the University 

 of Glasgow. 



