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leaf, becaufe i happened then firft to obferve 

 tliem, or they might be in thole ftates fome time 

 before in fome place where i happened not to 



go. 



2. 1 wanted fuch a guide as the ingenious author 

 of the Swedilli Calendar. My oblervations then 

 perhaps might have been lefs unworthy of the 

 public, as they would have been better direfted 

 to a particular purpofe •, but now the reader muft 

 exped to find in it all the imperfedions that ge- 

 nerally accompany firft attempts of any kind. 



3. I have caufed all the p-ognoftic plants, 

 which are mentioned in my Calendar, to be 

 printed in large letters as in the Swediih. The 

 other marks i fiiali explain in a page by itfelf, 

 for the m-ore eafy recurring to it. 



4. Thefe two Calendars would perhaps upon 

 comparifon have furnifhed m.e with fom.e obfer- 

 vations, had i been able to find time fuHicient 

 for that purpofe j but a ftrong defire to commu- 

 nicate them to the public early in the year, that 

 others might be induced to keep journals of the 

 fame kind, determined me to fend them out 

 in this naked condition; and the more fo, as i 

 am alTured en very good authority, that fuch 

 journals v/ill be kept in Sv/eden, Germany, Italy, 

 and France, the next year j and i think it would 

 be pity, that an opportunity (hould be loft of 

 making fo curious a comparifon betv/een thefe 

 different climates, and v/hich perhaps may not 

 occur again, or at leaft not for many years, 



5. The obfcrvations on heat and cold were 

 made with a thermometer, marked in a way pe- 

 culiar to myfelf. The degrees are thofe of Fa- 

 renhcir, which i chofe as being in common ufe, 



but 



