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The Barometer and Hygrometer regiftered in the foregoing journal, 

 were made by Dollond of London : the Thermometer was compared 

 with one made by the fame artifl:, and was found not to differ from 

 it materially: different Rain-gages were ufed, contrived by myfelf; 

 the laft, which proved the mofl convenient, is fimply a fquare canifler 

 of tin, whofe fide is two inches broad, receiving a funnel whofe area 

 is ten times that of the canifler's bafe; of courfe, the depth of rain- 

 water in the gage always exceeds that which has fallen abroad in a 

 decimal proportion. 



The place where thefe inftruments were kept, is fituated about tea 

 miles fouth from the bay of Fundy, in latitude 45. The elevatioa 

 above high water-mark, until Auguft 1 795, was about 1 5 feet ; after 

 that period, about 6^. The Thermometer was faflened on the out-fide 

 of a window in the fecond flory ; the afpecl north-wefterly. The Hy- 

 grometer and Barometer were kept in a lower chamber, of the fame 

 expofure, but without fire. 



The depth of fnow was alfo obferved, but as, on account of drifting 

 winds, this could not often be taken with much precifion, it is not here 

 particularly tranfcribed. The total quantity, on an average of the three 

 years, was 45 inches. 



The feveral particulars were noted daily at noon» ■ 



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