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letter from EDWARD A. HOLYOKE;' M.D.A.A.S. h ths 

 :, late EDWARD WIGGLESWORTrt/D.D. A.^A-S. -^ 



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l\M much obliged to yon for a fight of "tliofe papers, 

 you forwarded' to me by Mr, Prince : I thmk your method 



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of communicating the refults, only, of* your meteorological 



'obfervations, much to be perferred to the grofs bill, foi 



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iiiough, to condenfe tliem in this manner, be a work of much 



labour, yet it occ^fions fuch paper^^ to be much more attend- 

 ed to, than they otherwife would be, and of courfe much 

 more uieful ; though I think it might be ufeful too, to file the 



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obfervations, at large, with the fecretary, becaufe there may 

 be certain inferences of importance drawn from thefe, which 

 cannot be from thofe, fuch as, E. Gr. the- efFe(5l the winds 



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have upon tlie mercury in both barometer and thermometer. 



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not help attending, particularly, to. the article of 

 winds, by which I find ail the American obfervations, I have 

 met with, on**that heacl coil^rmed, and that yours agree with 

 what I have advanced in' a paper I prefented to the Academy 

 on the comparative cold and heat of Europe and America, vrz. 



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