jDr» HolyoJce^s Meteorological Observations. 



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A LETTER 



Accompanying the foregoing Tables, addressed to Professor Uedge, by 



whom tbcy were cominunicated. 



DEAR SIR, 



Boston, March, 1820. 



The fatiguing task, you desired me, in tlie name of Dr. 

 Holyoke, to perform, is at length nccomplishcd. Some inadver- 

 tencies in his registers occasioDed me the additional labour of cast- 

 ing anew about two hundred thousand figures, in order to ren- 



der the results as accurate, as possible, P 



me to rccjncsi 



you to have tlie goodness to communicate to the American Acadc- 



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jny this humble eifort of mine to subserve the interest of the so- 



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ciety, if you think it merits that attention, and the business has 

 been executed agreeably to Dr. Holyoke's wish and design. 



At the close of my labour it may be proper to state some- 



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thod. Dursued 



these papers 



subjoin a short notice of Dr. Holyoke's»?WaKM5cr?/;f5, containin 





Ms meteorological observations. 



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The metJiod is almost precisely that, 



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yok^, in his communication to the A 



adopted by Dr. 

 lerican Academy 



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and 



published in their Memoirs, Vol. ii. Part 



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contain his observations for a series of seven years 



Agreeably to his request, the present papers have been di- 



vided into three series of 



years each, and 



f five 



It was thought best by the calculator to find, in (hat 

 he work, headed GenerulJ{e8uJts,ihcmesiiisot the three 

 I series, and that of the incomplete one (as it may 



years, 

 part oT 1 



coraplet 



be called) embraced within the term of five years, previously 



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with the Results, included in the first series, pub 



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quality of the 



rendered 



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