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a great part of it was loft; and that fome 
farmers of a dilatory difpofition had not got in 
all their grain on the 23d. of December. He 
alfo obferves, that the martins and houfe fwal- 
lows appear about ten days fooner on the coaft 
of Solway Firth, and about Dumfries, than 
where he refides. 
On the 29th. of December 1775, he takes - 
notice of an earthquake being felt upon his fite, 
through all Annandale and Crawford Moor, 
which continued about fifteen feconds. 
I have the honour to be, dear Sir, 
Your moft obedient, &c. 
ALEX. COPLAND. 
Dumfries, 
Feb, 2d. 1794. 
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(8. ) 
Meteorological Obfervations, by Dr. Campsety, of 
Lancafier. 
I. When the wind is in the S. W. quarter 
in the fummer and autumnal feafons, and the 
temperature of the air is unufually cold for the 
feafon of the year, both to the feeling and the 
thermometer, with a low barometer, itis a fign 
that much rain may be expected. Thefe ap- 
pearances are accounted for by the author of 
the Botanic Garden with his ufual ingenuity, 
upon the principle of the fudden expanfion of 
the air coming from the fouth, occafioning 
cold, anda precipitation of its moifture. 
Kkkk II. All 
