VOL. XXIV.] ' PHILOSOPHICAL IBANSACTIONS. 20/ 



for everyday, from the 9th of Dec. 1691, to the end of the year 1692. It 

 is neatly and orderly kept, in 7 columns; of which the 1st column is the day 

 of the month; column 2 the hour of the day; columns the degree of the 

 thermometer; column 4 the barometer; column 5 the hygrometer; column 6 

 the wind; and column 7 the weather: the particulars of which are now no 

 jonger of any use. 



An Account of the Lake Wetter , in Sweden. By Dr. Urban Hearne^ F.R.S. 



N°298, p. 1938. ' 



The lake Wetter, extends north and south about 80 English miles in length, 

 and from 10 to 20 in breadth. It divides Gothland into two parts; the one, 

 situated to the east, is called Ostrogothland, and the other, to the west, Wes- 

 trogothland. But there is nothing in this account of the lake Wetter, 

 beyond what may be gleaned from gazetteers and other books of geography 

 and travels. 



attend the countess, returned the year following, with that lady, to England. On his return, he 

 lived, as before, at lord Ashley's j who having, jointly with some other lords, obtained a grant of 

 Carolina, engaged Mr. Locke to draw up the fundamental constitutions of that province. 



From a disgust at the Aristotelian philosophy, and not satisfied with thai of Descartes, Mr. Locke 

 began to form the plan of his celebrated "Essay on Human Understanding," in \67l; but was 

 prevented at that time from making any great progress in it, by an appointment to the office of 

 secretary to the presentations, by his patron, now become the Lord Chancellor. But the year fol- 

 lowing lord Shaftesbury being displaced, Mr. Locke followed him. The office of secretary to the 

 commissioners of trade however, he enjoyed till the board was dissolved in iS/*. He then went to 

 Montpelier for his health, where he remained a considerable time. After his return, he accompanied 

 his patron to Holland, whither his lordship was obliged to fly, to avoid a prosecution for high treason. 

 In l684, Charles the 2d ordered Mr. Locke to be removed from his student's situation at Christ 

 Church : and the year following, the English envoy at Holland demanded him of the States-General, on 

 suspicion of his being concerned in Monmouth's rebellion. On this he kept retired for several months, 

 during which he was employed in preparing for the press his Essay on Human Understanding, which 

 was completed in l6%7 , though it did not appear in public till after the Revolution, an event which 

 restored him to his native country, he having accompanied the princess of Orange to England. Soon 

 after his arrival he was made commissioner of appeals j and in 1695 he obtained a seat at the board 

 of trade. He might have had other preferment, but the state of his health induced him to decline 

 all the advantageous offers that were made him, and to prefer spending the latter years of his life in 

 a calm philosophical retirement at the seat of lady Masham, at Oates in Essex, where he composed 

 several of his later works, and where he died in 1704, in the 73d year of his age. His remains 

 were interred in the church of that place, where a monument was erected to his memory. But the 

 highest eulogium on his character was performed by queen Caroline, consort to George the 2d, 

 who erected a pavilion, in Richmond-Park, in honour of philosophy, where she placed our author's 

 bust on a level with those of Bacon, Newton, and Clarke, as the four principal English philosophers. 

 His works, which are very numerous, solid, and profound, in philosophy, politics, theology, &c. 

 have been often printed, both separately and collectively j and for depth and originality of thought, 

 closeness of reasoning, and a style peculiarly adapted to the various subjects of which this philosopher 

 treated, they ever have been and ever must be held in the highest estimation. 



