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there does on an equal surface of moist 

 earth." Hence we see that water, by its 

 coolness, is enabled to assimilate to itself a 

 large quantity of moisture nightly by con- 

 densation : and that the air, when loaded 

 with fogs and vapours, and even with co- 

 p ous dews, can alone advance a consider- 

 able and never-failing resource. Persons 

 that are much abroad, and travel early and 

 late, such as shepherds, fishermen, &c. can 

 tell what prodigious fogs prevail in the 

 night on elevated downs, even in the hot- 

 test parts of Summer ; and how much the 

 surfaces of things are drenched by those 

 swimming vapours, though, to the senses, 

 all the while, little moisture seems to fall. 



I am, &c. 



END OF VOL. I. 



T. C. HANSARD, Pater-noster row Press. 



