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of engagements, rendered it impoffible for him to 
pay that .attention to them, which he conceived 
they deferved: he therefore requefted that I would 
arrange them, fo as to form a Memoir for the 
Literary and Philofophical Society. This I have 
attempted to do, but muft lament with the Society, 
that they want the ufeful obfervations and remarks, 
‘which they would have received from our worthy 
Prefident. But though this is to be regretted, I 
truft that the facts will be deemed important, and 
that feveral ufeful dedu&tions may be drawn from 
them. ‘They belong principally to a part of the 
weftern coaft of this ifland, fituated between 
‘Dumfries and Lancafter; this part of the natural 
hiftory of which, has hitherto been but little 
known. It is much to be wifhed, that the pecu- 
harities of the climate in various parts of this 
ifland, were afcertained by fimilar obfervations, 
which would be an addition to its natural-hiftory, 
not merely gratifying to curiofity, but’ applicable 
to the moft ufeful purpofes. 
The remarks of Mr. Copland, of Dumfries, 
are very valuable; they are the refult of attentive 
obfervation, affifted by a truly philofophi¢ mind; 
and though fome of the theories are perhaps not 
perfectly fatisfa@tory, yet moft of them are highly 
probable, and many perfectly new; upon the 
whole, his remarks contain the beft and moft 
rational rules for judging of the weather, that we 
poffefs. Whether or frot they are all applicable to 
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