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A Q^U E O U S METEORS. 



E proceed now to the confideration of a lefs denfe element, atmo 



and its various changes 



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and phasnomena, and fliall treat 

 iirfl, of the- aqueous meteors^ becaufe more clofely connecSled with 

 the former fedion-. 



Firfi, The climate within the tropics being very warm, and the 

 nights rather long, the vapours raifed in the day time by the heat of 



the fun, are condenfed toward 



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and fall frequently 



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on every part of the fhip : and this we fometimes. obferved in the 

 midfl of the atlantic ocean, though at a great diflance from any land. 

 We had a few inilances of a flrong dew falling in the higher lati^ 

 tudes, of which I will only feled one on January 8 th, at lo P. M. 

 17755 when we were faiJing between 50° and 60° and far enough- 



from land, we found the- whole deck and all the rigging moiflened; 



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