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plates, and put into an undulating motion, 

 by the Sun's warmth, whereby it is ruoft 

 plentifully thrown off, and perfpired thro' 

 their furface 5 whence, as foon as it is dif- 

 intangled, it mounts with great rapidity in 

 the free air. 



But when, towards the latter end of Oc- 

 tober , the vigour of the Sun's influence is 

 fo much abated, that the firft Thermometer 

 was fallen to 3 degrees above the freezing 

 point, the fecond to 10 degrees, the fifth to 

 14 degrees, and the fixth Thermometer to 

 1 6 degrees 5 then the brisk undulations of the 

 moifture of the earth, and alfo of the af- 

 cending fap, much abating, the leaves fad- 

 ed and fell off. 



The greateft degree of cold, in the fol- 

 lowing winter, were in the firft 12 days of 

 November, during which time, the fpirit in 

 the firft Thermometer was fallen 4 degrees 

 below the freezing point, the deepeft Ther- 

 mometer 10 degrees, the ice on ponds was 

 an inch thick, the Sun's greateft warmth, at 

 the winter folftice, in a very ferene, calm, 

 frofty-day, was, again ft a South afped of a 

 wall, 19 degrees, and in a free open air, but 

 a 1 1 degrees above the freezing point. From 

 F a the 



