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i-efl of the kingdom has undergone. Im- 

 plements and utenfils of hufbandry, as of 

 war, are among the beft evidences of 

 Hiltory. 



6. 



The weather. 



THE CLIMATURE, or general ilate 

 of the weather, in this extreme part of the 

 Ifland, has been already fpoken of. And 

 with refped: to PROGNOSTICS, or a fore^ 

 knowledge of the weather, at any time 

 or feafon, I have gained no information, 

 here. The barometer appears to be 

 little attended to ; and, indeed, all thoughts 

 about the weather, even of the morrow or 

 the pafling day, are conlidered as ufelefs ; 

 until the mifty fummit of fome oracular 

 miountain announces approaching rain. 



It may be true, that, in this peninfular 

 fituation, the weather is lefs certain, than 

 in the more central parts of the Illand -, 

 yet, from the obfervations I had an oppor- 

 tunity of making, I found the BAROMETER, 



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