124 OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE to the 



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Mifcellaneous Obfervations relative to the Wejlern Parts 

 of Pennfyhania^ particularly thofe in the 'Neighbourhood 

 of Lake Erie. By Andrew Elucott. 



Dear Sir, 



Read Dec. T TAKE the liberty of tranfmitting to you the 

 4.1795- Jl following mifcellaneous obfervations, coUedled 

 from my notes, relative to Lake Erie, and the Weftem 

 Country, the perufal of which I flatter myfelf will not be 

 unfatis factory or uninterefting. 



The fituation of this lake is already well known, and 

 therefore a particular topographical defcription will here 

 be unneceflary ; but a variety of phenomena which attend 

 it, merit a more minute confideration, and cannot fail to 

 engage the attention of the philofopher; phenomena 

 which in all probability are common to all large lakes of 

 frefh water. 



In the fummer feafon fogs are feldom obferved on the 

 margin of the lake. The three fummer months that I 

 refided at Prefqu' Ifle, no fogs were feen during the whole 

 time. The horizon was generally clear, and the ftars 

 fhone with remarkable luftre. The moft common winds 

 here generally refemble the fea and land breezes, in the 

 Weft Indies. From the end of fpring till the beginning 

 of autumn, they blow, except at the time of ftorms, from 

 the lake upon the land during great part of the day, and 

 from the land upon the lake during the night : 1 he 

 change generally takes place between the hours of feven 

 and ten m the morning, and about the fetting of the fun 

 in the evening. Thefe breezes, alternately blowing in 

 oppofite diredions, render thofe fituations contiguous to 



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