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way, and sometimes it ran round about in a compass. And — and also in 



sometimes the snow would be lifted clean from the ground up direction, &c. 



to the air, and by and by it would be all clapt to the ground, 



as though there had been no wind at all; straightway it would 



rise and fly again. And that, which was the most marvellous 



of all, at one time two drifts of snow flew, the one out of the 



west into the east, the other out of the north into the east. 



And I saw two winds by reason of the snow, the one cross 



over the other as it had been two highways ; and again, I ^^^ currents 



heard the wind blow in the air, when nothing was stirred at of air at the 



the ground. And when all was still where I rode, not very ^^^'^ '"^* 



far from me, the snow should be lifted wonderfully. This 



experience made me more marvel at the nature of the wind, 



that it made me cunning in the knowledge of the wind ; I)ut 



yet thereby I learned perfectly that it is no marvel at all, 



though men in wind lose their length in shooting, seeing so 



many ways the wind is so variable in blowing. 



" But seeing that' the master of a ship, be he never so 

 cunning, by the uncertainty of the wind, loses many times 

 both life and goods, surely it is no wonder, though a right 

 good archer, by the self same wind, so variable in its own na- 

 ture, so insensible to our nature, loses m^ny a shot and game. 



V. 



Observaiiotis on the Marine Barometer, made during the Exatni' 

 nation of the Coasts of New Holland^ and New South Wales, in 

 theyears 1801, 1802, and 1803. By Mathew Flinders, 

 Esq. Commander of his Majesty's Ship Investigator, in a Letter * 



to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. 

 R. S.i S(c, Sfc. from Philosiphical Transactions for 1806. 

 [Concluded from Page 118.] 



Jl HE greatest range of the mercury observed upon the last Observations 



coast, was from 29, 60 to 30, 36 at Port Jackson; and within ''''^ inferences 

 . ' ' -^ ' to ascertain the 



the tropic from 29, 88 to 30, 30; whilst upon the south coast, correspondent 

 the range was from 29, 42 to 30, 51, in the western part, <^haoges of 

 where the latitude very little exceeds that of Port Jackson. It ther, to be ex- 

 is to be observed, however, that these extremes are taken for pt^cted after 

 very short intervals of time. ^^^.^^^ baro^* 



My 



meter. 



