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fliould have more nicely watched) what I have farther gather* 
cd from Reports, is to this purpofe. 
I hear, it was olbferved at BhehingtBrt, above f . miles to the 
'^orth of Oxferd.and fo along by Bofiol^Horton^Stantm-Stfjohns^ 
and fo towards Whately^ which is about 4, miles Eafiward from 
Oxford.^ot at all thefe places at the fame time, bat moving for- 
ward from BlechingtoH towards Wbately. For it was at Stanton 
about 6. of the Clock or later (as I underftand from Mr. Boyle, 
who was.there at that time;) but had been at Blechington a 
good while fooner. And I am told, that it was taken notice of 
by Do(flor Holder ( a Member of our Society^ who was then at 
Blechington, to be obferved by thofe in the further part of the 
Garden, fome very difcernable time before it was obferved by 
thofe in the Houfe; creeping forward from the one place to 
the other. What other places in the Country it was obferved 
at, I have not been informed : but at Oxford f which, it feems, 
was about the skirts of it) it was fo fmal!^ as would have been 
hardly noted at all,had not the iiotice,taken of it abroad^ infor- 
med us of St. 
Upon this Occa{ion,itwillnotbeunfeafonab!e to give fome 
General accounts of 'what I have in my TImmofcope and Baro- 
My Thermofcope, being fitted fome what at adventures, I have 
found at the loweft to befomewhat more than 12. inches high, 
in thefierceft time of the long Froft in the beginning of the 
laftyear i<5(^f^ and about 27, Incheshigh, at the higheil, in the 
hotteft time of the laft Summer : ( which I mentiou,that it may 
appear at what temperature in proportion, the Air' was at the 
time above-mentioned.) But I muft add withall, that this (land- 
ingfo^as never to be expofedto the Sun,butin a room, that has 
a window only to the North, it would have been raifed much 
higher than 27* inches, if it were put in the hot Sun-fhineia 
Summer ; this, as it is placed,giving therefore an account oiiely 
of the Temperature of the Air in ^^;2^r«/, not of the immediate 
heat of the Suli-fliine. . 
This Tnf!:rument,thus fituated, when it is about 1 5. inches, or 
lo wer5is for the moft part hard froft 5 but feldom a froft, if high - 
er than id. Yet this I have often obferved, that the Air by the 
Ti/fr/wo/iTfl/?^ has appeared confiderably colder (and the liquor 
lower) at fometimes when there is no Froft, than at fome other 
times, when the Froft bath been confiderably hard* Is 
