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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



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THE TABLE. 



From the ]6th, in the successive spaces of 24 hours, each gained one of the 

 number of grains following; as the 8th natural day gained 134-, the next 12, 9, 

 7, 6, 5, 5, 4i, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, (December) 4, 4J-, 4, 3, 3, &c. still irregu- 

 larly decreasing till the liquor was saturated. The diary was continued to Jan. 4, 

 l68f, when the increase in 24 hours amounted scarcely to half a grain, and pro- 

 bably had the weather been then dry, it might have been none at all, or rather 

 the liquor might have lost what before it had gained. Hence it is obvious, that 

 the more the liquor was saturated, the less was its daily increase, though not 

 gradually less by an even descent each day, but sometimes two or more natural 

 days together it was exactly the same, a day or two after less, and then again 

 more the next day following, according as the liquor stood affected by the heat 

 or cold, dryness or moisture of the weather, the differing time of the day and 

 quarter of the wind. Thus on the view of tlie whole diary, of almost two 

 months, it appeared that the increase was more in a moist, rainy, misty, and 



