14^ Meteorological Axioms. 



to this vice, and particularly on womenj who moft frequently 

 become the viftims of it. Perhaps the frightful details of fo 

 horrid an evil as that of combuflion will reclaim drunkards 

 from this horrid practice. Plutarch relates, that at Sparta 

 children were deterred from drunkennefs by exhibiting to 

 them the fpecSlacle of intoxicated flav^s, who, by their hi- 

 deous contorfions, filled the minds of thefe young fpeftators 

 with fo much contempt that they never afterwards got 

 drunk. This ftate of drunkennefs, however, was only tran- 

 fitory. How much more horrid it appears in thofe unfor- 

 tunate viftims confumed by the flames and reduced to afhes ! 

 May men never forget that the vine fometimes produces very 

 bitter fruit — difeafe, pain, repentance, and death ! 



VIII. JM e I eoro logical Axioms, (^ L. Cotte ; or the general 

 Rifult of his own and foreign Meteorological Ohfervations 

 during the courfe of Thirty Years *. 



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UR meteorological obfcrvations are as old as the clla- 

 blifhment of the Academy of Sciences in the year 1666, and 

 have never yet been interrupted, The moft celebrated aca- 

 demicians, fuch as a Sidileau, a de la Hire, a Maraldi, 'a 

 Caffini, a Fouchy, a Chappe, See. have contributed towards 

 them ; and fcveral members, fuch as Morin, Duhamcl, 

 Malovin, Meffier, &c. paid attention to the fame obje6l 

 without making themfelves much known. The correfpond- 

 cnts of the Academy alfo frequently communicated to it 

 their meteorological obfcrvations. All the learned focieties 

 in Europe comprehend meteorology in the lift of their la- 

 bours, and particularly the Royal. Society of Lon.don, the 

 Academies of Berlin, Stockholm, Peterfburg, &c. but, above 

 all, the Medical Societies at Paris and the Hague, and the 

 Meteorologic Society at Manheim. Thefe three learned 

 bodies have therefore the moft extenfive correfpondence. 



I have communicated to the public the rcfuU of the ob- 

 ftrvations made by all thefe focieties as well as of my own 



* Fioir A'.wfi Journal da Pbjfik, by I'rofcffor Gren, Yo!. IIT, part 5.. 



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