420 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I767. 



King's bath, coolest part gg" Pump in the Market-place, Bath 54* 



Ditto, hottest part lOl Springs on Claverton, and at the late Mr. 



Queen's bath, coolest part 97 Allen's ' 4- 



Ditto, warmest 98 Springs on Lansdown 45 



The pump in the bath 113 St. James's spring water 43 



Cross bath, coolest part 89 Old well house, Bristol 67 



Ditto, warmest part t,o New well, ditto * . ja 



Cross bath pump 107 



The temperature of the above springs taken in November, and December last 

 1765, by Fahrenheit's scale (Bird's Thermometer). 



XXII. Observations on the Heat of the Bath and Bristol Water. By Mr. John 



Canton, A. M., F. R. S. p. 203. 

 After pumping about a quarter of an hour, a Fahrenheit's thermometer, held 

 in the stream from the common pump of the king's bath, was raised to 112". 

 The stream from the common pump of the hot bath raised it to 1 144.°. At the 

 pump of the cross bath, it stood at 110°. At noon, the heat of the shaded air 

 was 66°, and of common water exposed to it 6l°. The bath water, and common 

 water, brought to the same degree of heat, cooled equally fast. The next day, 

 Sept. 14, he was at the hot-well near Bristol, the water of which raised the ther- 

 mometer to 76". In common water exposed to the shaded air it stood at 62". 



XXI n. On some Particular Fish found in Wales. By the Hon. Daines Bar- 



rington,* F. R. S. p. 204. 

 The following particulars are with regard to perch -^ in a pool of Merioneth- 

 shire ; and trout, which are found in a river of Cardiganshire. The pool is si- 



• Mr. D. Barrington was the 4th son of lord viscount Barrington, of the kingdom of Ireland, so 

 well known by his " Miscellanea Sacra." Mr. B. was bred to the law ; but, though esteemed a very 

 sound lawyer, he never rose to any distinguished eminence as a pleader. He was however for some 

 time recorder of Bristol. He was also advanced to the rank of king's counsel, and was, during 

 several years, one of the Welsh judges. Had it been his wish, doubtless Mr. B. might have attained 

 the English ermine. But, possessing an ample income, and having a strong bias to antiquarian 

 knowledge, natural historj, and its concomitant studies, he retired from the practice of the law, and 

 applied his legal knowledge to the purposes of investigating curious questions of legal antiquity ; 

 which were published in a 4to volume. His inquiries into ornithology and various phenomena of 

 nature, are well known. He was an old and most respectable member of the a. s. and an ingenious 

 contributor to the annual volume of its Transactions, as well as to those of the Antiquarian Society, 

 of which he was a vice-president. Mr. B. published Observations on the Statutes, in 4io. > also 

 Tracts on the Probability of Reaching the North Pole ; and a number of other pieces on miscella- 

 neous subjects. Mr. B. had for a great number of years occupied the chambers in the King's 

 Bench Walks, in the Inner Temple, where he died the Uth of March, 1800, after a lingering ill- 

 ness, at a very advanced age. See an extensive account of many particulars of Mr. B.'s life and 

 transactions, in the Gent. Mag. for 1800, vol. 70, p. C91, &c. 



f See Pennant's British Zoology, vol. 3, article Perch, where a figure of this distorted variety 

 may be found. 



