CN THE BAROMETER. ZOJ 



VII. 



With respect to the Thermometer, although it was 

 liable to some inaccuracy from my not being able to 

 preserve the apartment in which it was hung, uniform- 

 ly open or shut, yet, as the variations from this cause 

 were trifling, and never obscured the regular and pro- 

 gressive rise and fall which it observes at different pe- 

 riods of the day, I conceive that my record is suffi- 

 ciently exact for enabling me to decide, with safety, 

 that the daily fluctuations which appeared in the Baro- 

 meter, were not connected with the daily vicissitudes 

 of heat and cold, 



VIII* 



Although the state of the wind was not measured 

 by any instrument, but estimated only grossly by the 

 effect which it appeared to produce on* the trees and 

 other objects around, still I conceive that I mav also 

 venture to determine on this ground, that the diurnal 

 fluctuation of the Mercury was ?wi connected with the 

 state of the wind. 



In the column appropriated for recording the state 

 of the wind, Number i represents a breeze c 

 of carrying on a ship two or three miles in the hour; 

 Number 2, a breeze capable of carrying on a ship f 

 or five miles ; and Number 3, a breeze capable of car- 

 rying on a ship six, seven, or eight I 



IX. 



Neither are the appearances of the shy <Jefij . 

 with much precision or minuteness; vet, upon the 

 description that I have given, 1 think 1 may pronounce 



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