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O N 



THE 



ATMO- 

 SPHERE. 



Capes Carmel, Grecgo, and Laodicea. Both our water-fpouU 

 were formed within, or near the entrance of Cook's Straits, betweea 



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the two iiles of New Zeeland, among many projecting head-landG> 

 at the mouth of founds and bays, extending feveral leagues up the- 

 country, and forming remarkable windings *. 



Fourthly y Water- fpouts are; commonly obferved in a calm, after 

 hard gales, and fometimes after v/arm, mild weather, efpecially 



remarkably oo 



for we had 



when the upper region of the air is 



met with fmart fliowers of rain the preceding day, and it blew hard all 



the night before : in the morning, the violence of the wind gradually 



abated, and 



becam. 



mild 



V/hen the water 





ufl 



io 

 2- 



the 



forming, the thermometer v/as.at 561°, which had been at 51 

 day before. During the. time that one. of them approached us, fome 

 hail fell, which proves the upper region of the atmofphere to have 

 been cooler than the lower, by 20 degrees at leaft ; and, after the 

 outs had all difappeared,, the thermometer, was at 54°; confequent- 



ly even the atmofphere below, had been rem.arkably cooled in three 

 quarters of an hour. 



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Mr. de BufFon, vol. ii. p. 287. edit, in i2mo, finds it necellary, 

 in order to account for all the phsenomena attending water-lpouts. 



fuppofe that tlie 



always 



der the fea, where fome 



fubterraneous 



Whoe 



and Dr: , FranhUnh above-mentioned Ingenious book. 



'hfophkal Tranfa^. 



