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March the ji^th, the eafterly wind began, and continued with 

 fine dry but cold weather until the 9th ; thermometer at night 

 33°, and at noon ji^'. 9th, high wind at Weft, and fome rain ; 

 but fcarce any except at night from that day until the 24th. 

 13th, wind North. 17th, E. S. E. Thermometer in this interval 

 32° at night, and at noon 52°; barometer 30.6 and 30.8. 

 23d, cloudy, but dry. 24th, rain j wind S. S. W, ; barometer 

 29.9. Hence until Jpril the 2,th no rain ; wind E. and S. E. 

 On the 2d I left Dublin. On the 8th a ftorm at N. E. No- 

 rain until the 21ft, on which day I returned to Dublin. 



^pril the 22^/, heavy rain ; wind South, but not warm ; ther- 

 mometer at noon 46°. The rains continued with little inter- 

 miflion until May the gth ; but from that day to the 15th dry, 

 clear and funfhine ; wind E. or N. E. ; thermometer at noon 

 63° or 64". From hence to the 29th wind fhifted frequently; 

 weather cloudy, wet and cold. 19th and 20th fl;ormy, with 

 rain and hail; yet the barometer flood higher than could be 

 cxpeded, moflly between 29.8 and 30.3 ; thermometer at noon 

 at a medium 54°. From the 29th of May to June the gth moftly 

 dark but dry, with odd fhowers ; thermometer at a medium 

 58% barometer 30. On the 9th heavy rain with hail. Hence 

 to the 13th wind N. E. ; barometer 30.2 , thermometer at noon 

 66°, at night 50°. 14th, clear, hoc; thermometer 70° at noon, 

 at night 55°; barometer 30.3. It continued moderately fine, 

 with little rain, until the i8th, and then it blew a violent gale 

 at N. W. and the i^th at S W. with rain. 20th and 21ft, calm • 

 thermometer 75" at two o'clock in the afternoon. 



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