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5°2 milés will be -303. I was much astonished at first discovering that 
the air had so great absorbent powers, and many ideas are suggested by 
the fact.” 
My letter is already becoming tedious, but I will venture to trespass 
on your patience further, by naming a few test-objects, which will en- 
able you the better to compare the advantages of our position with 
your own, 
1. 5 Cephei. This I have looked at repeatedly with my naked eye, 
and though I cannot be sure that I have seen it double, I put it down, in 
astronomical language, as ** strongly suspected.” 
2. The two small stars in the neighborhood of the pole-star, and in 
the general direction, of y Cephei (thus , *.) are seen distinctly, 
and almost every night, as a single point of light. 
3. 4and 5 
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tinetly seen. They appear somthing like this (- ro 
4 
Barometer reduced, Fahrenheit’'s Thermometer. 
Sunrise. 2pm 06 610P.M ' ‘Sunrise. 2 P.M. 10 P. 
24246 = 24-247 24-235 67-4 79°45 —71°-37 
ral average, 24-242 : I average of the three ob- 
; bg a * ‘0, 
Barometer highest, 24°417 servations, 72°-74. 
° lowest, ‘097 Hygrometer—wet bulb. 
rd Sunrise. fe et 18 P.M. 
4 ° eo. °, 
Difference,  -320 j 60°43 95°37 
General average from the above, 
6°:87 
Ave di fH ter and Thermometer, 15°-87. 
oe Sioncne yo “at 2p. m., 19°02. 
_ Greatest change of Thermometer in 24 hours, 18°. 
__N.B. The daily observations differ but ee from the weekly aver- 
ge. One day follows another with great uniformity. 
