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cnce i^, that when the thermometer of prtfi 

 fcfibr Qelfius rofe to thirty ^^. abdVe the 

 fix^ezing point once in tvvo or three fuiftmerfe 

 at ;,4(?^(?, the fam^ therrtibmeter did hot oiliy 

 For three months together ftaiid at the fame 

 degree, but even fometimes rdfe higher 5 

 hot oAly in i^ehjylvania, but iikfeWife ift 

 Mw Torky Albany, and a great part bf Ca^ 

 nada, Durihg the furamers which I fpent 

 at Philadelphia^ the thermdni'eter has two 

 or three times tifen lb thirty-iik deg. above 

 the freezing point, ft ttiay therefore with 

 great certainty be faid* that ih PehJ^Puania 

 the greateft part of April, the whole May^ 

 and all the following months till OBober-, 

 are like our Swedifi months of June and 

 Jte^i So exceffive arid continued a heat 

 muft certainly ha\^e very great efFedts. I here 

 again tefer to my meteorological obfervati-i 

 ens. It ihuft iikewife be afcribed to the 

 eifeds of this heat that the common tiielonsi 

 the water melonSj and the pumpions of 

 different for ts are foWri in the fields with-i 

 mit any bells or the like put over theth, and 

 yet ai-i2 ripe as early as July', further, that 

 cherries are ripe at Philadelphra about the 

 i^th. of MiT^j arid that in Pehfylvania the 

 t»4ieat is frequently reaped in the middle of 

 Jufii, 

 #. The ^hole oiSepnmber, and half, if 



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