l64 I'HILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1738. 



That from Southwick, near Oundle, in Northamptonshire, by George Lynne, 

 Esq. contains the height of the barometer once a day, and the winds, the 

 steadiness and strength of which are likewise marked with proper marks and 

 figures. Observation is made of the upper and under currents of the air, when 

 it so happened. The thermometer is marked twice a day; the weather often, 

 both by day and night ; the rain from time to time, and the quantity of each 

 particular shower often set down by itself, with some other miscellaneous obser- 

 vations, as haloes, thunder-storms, and sudden changes of wind, &c. He re- 

 marks that his thermometer is placed in an out-house exposed to the air, but 

 screened from the sun, which is a proper precaution in using that instrument. 

 The remarkable rises and falls of the Mercury are also marked with proper 

 marks ; which method would be useful in the other columns also, for com- 

 parison of diaries, if some certain rule were agreed 'on. 



That from Kent, l6 miles south east from London, gives an account of the 

 barometer once a day, sometimes twice or thrice, with the hour of each obser- 

 vation, and the winds, weather, and rain, the proportion of which for every 

 day, is given at the end of each month. There is also a separate column for 

 the height of the clouds, which is divided into three orders ; and where there 

 are two orders at a time, they are both noted ; as also when any of them move 

 with different velocities or directions, which he supposes to be commonly a 

 sign of change of the wind : but he does not inform us by what method he de- 

 termined their heights or velocities. The reigning wind, and general strength 

 of it, is noted at the end of each month ; the eclipses also, and the times of 

 the new moons ; which he observes make it appear, that the notion of the 

 change of weather depending on the age of the moon, is without any ground : 

 with other miscellaneous observations ; as the aurora borealis, fruitfulness or 

 sterility of the season. He had no thermometer. 



That from Hudicksvall in Sweden, by M. Olave Broman, shows the height 

 of the barometer, sometimes once, sometimes twice or thrice a day, o. s. in 

 English measure, with the winds, and the strength of them, and the weather. 

 There is also to the diary 1 72Q, annexed an account of the height of the sea- 

 water for every day, which varies in the whole about 1 inches, and is sometimes 

 interrupted by floods from rain. This probably relates to the tides in the gulph 

 of Bothnia. There is no thermometer, nor the quantity of rain set down. 



That from Risinge, in Ostrogothia, in Sweden, by Sueno Laurelius, pastor 

 and provost, gives the height of the barometer for the most part 3 times, some- 

 times 5 times a day, with the hour of the observations, o. s. in English mea- 

 sure. He refers for the descriptions of his barometer and thermometer to the 



