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Of the Dijlin&ions of Variable. 



The modification called variable being intermediate between 

 dry and ivet^ may fometimes approach very nearly (that is, 

 within one or two-tenths) to the one, and fometimes to the 

 other ; and hence I fliall diftinguifli variable i72clining to dry^ 

 and variable inclining to -wet : it is reafonable to conclude that 

 when this modification occurs as a prognojlic it fliould be 

 deemed to participate but in a lefler degree of the foreboding 

 properties of that modification to which it approaches moft ; 

 and alfo indicate a leffer degree of the modification foreboded, 

 by the prognoftic to which it approaches. As the prognof- 

 tications however founded on thefe diflindlions arc not the 

 refult of immediate obfervation, I fhall comprize them in fepa- 

 rate tables, that their validity may be efTayed by future expe- 

 rience. If found lafeful, they may be enlarged. 



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