with my own ; but, being filled again twice at New- 

 ton, the mercury stood, on account of the great ele- 

 vation of that house, three-tenths of an inch lower 

 than the barometers at this village, and so it con- 

 tinues to do, be the weight of the atmosphere what 

 it may. The plate of the barometer at Newton is 

 figured as low as 27 ; because in stormy weather the 



mercury there will 

 sometimes descend 

 below 28. We have 

 supposed Newton- 

 house to stand two 

 hundred feet higher 

 than this house : but 

 if the rule holds 

 good, which says 

 that mercury in a 

 barometer sinks one- 

 tenth of an inch for 

 every hundred feet 

 elevation, then the 

 Newton barometer, 

 by standing three- 

 tenths lower than 

 that of Selborne, 

 proves that Newton- 

 house must be three 

 hundred feet higher than that in which I am writ- 

 ing, instead of two hundred. 



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The tower of Selborne church. 



