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tath. I do not recoiled to have read in Bruce's 

 Travels of what heat the fprings or wells are in the 

 countries of Africa through which he travelled, He 

 tells us of his drinking of the water of the fource of 

 the Nile, but does not fay whether it was warm or cold. 

 The taking notice of the heat of the waters in fot. 

 reign hot countries feems to have been omitted by 

 many travellers. 



By fome accurate obfervations that were made on 

 the heat of Bath and Briftoi water by Mr. Canton, 

 it appears that a thermometer held in the ftream from 

 the common pump of the King's bath, after pumping 

 about half an hour, was raifed to 112, and the 

 ftream from the common pump of the hot bath raifed 

 it to II 4. 



Buxton water has been obferved to raife the ther- 

 mometer to 80, and that of Matlock to 66 or 6S» 

 Dr. Falconer ftates the heat of the Bath waters, as 

 they are commonly drank, of the King's bath 116, 

 and of the Hot bath n6, of the Crofsbath 11.2. I 

 have read of fprings being fo hot that their water 

 'would boil eggs, &g. 



There are feveral different thermometers in ufe 

 amomg gardeners and others ; but Fahrenheit's is the 

 mofl general, and undoubtedly the belt. 



In my journal I have fet down what fort of weather 

 we had on every day, and the changes at pr near 

 about every hour of the day, at Addifcombe Place, 

 during one year. 



. In the weather all mankind are lefs or more 



interefled, and they feldom fiiil to make known 



^ their 



