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METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 



BAROMETER. 



NOVEMBER 22, 1768. A remarkable 

 fall of the barometer all over the kingdom. 

 At Selborne we had no wind, and not 

 much rain ; only vast, swagging, rock-like 

 clouds, appeared at a distance. WHITE. 



PARTIAL FROST. 



The country people, who are abroad in 

 Winter mornings long before sun-rise, talk 

 much of hard frost in some spots, and none 

 in others. The reason of these partial frosts 

 is obvious, for there are at such times par- 

 tial fogs about; where the fog obtains, 

 little or no frost appears : but where the 



