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ferior portion and furface of the air that is carried 
to the ifland by every wind.—For the fame reafons 
the atmofphere comes to be loaded with the ‘exha- 
ations and vapour ‘of ‘this fluid or fea, which 
arriving with every wind on our ifland, eafily ac- 
counts for the uncertainty of our weather and 
winds, and the frequency of falls. 
In explanation of the 7th. and 8th. remarks it 
may not be improper to obferve, that when the 
wind blows North by Weft, it muft be loaded 
with the cold of the neareft ‘frozen continent, viz. 
Weft Greenland, and at the fame time takes the 
{weep of another bleak and almoft ‘uninhabited 
iffand, ‘viz. Iceland, and will therefore bring along 
with it a greater quantity of frigorific particles than 
can’be abftracted from it in pafling over the inter- 
vening fea, and will approach the coafts of Scot- 
Jand «and North of England in a moft bleak and 
cold temperature. In order ‘to elucidate the gth. 
and oth. remarks, I fhall obferve, that when the 
Sun and Moon are:either exerting their fpheres of 
attraction in nearly'the fame line, or in a diredtly 
oppofite fituation, they :muft exert their influence 
in/fo uniform a manner upon our atmofphere and 
other fluids on the furface of this globe, as to 
keep up a more equal’ballance, and give a greater 
degree of fteadinefs to the atmofphere, and prevent 
changes from ‘taking place that otherwife muft have 
occurred. But when the Moon has altered her 
pofition fo far with refpect to the Sun, that their 
attractions 
