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than onewoald think^ to fettle any genera! rule about the ri- 
fing and falliDg of the ^c\-fihery yet in thefe paifs one of 
thofe, thatfeem tohpld oftiieft^^a 
* that when high winds blc)# , the ^ ^y^^ A^j^^wfo^^ p.Phil.tranf- 
M^rwv is the lower ; and yet that ^ 157- S- S. ^ 9. 
itfelf does fometimes fail: For, Generally 
this very day ( March 3, ) though ^^^.^ 
onthathiil, where I am, thefome- 
what Wefterly Winds have been bluftering enough^ yet ever 
Cnce morning the ^ic^flver has been rifing^ and is now rifen 
near I ofan 
I had thoughts to add fomething about another kind of Ba^ 
roffope ( but inferiour to that in ufe ) whereof I have given forae 
intimation in one of the Pmlimimries to iliQ Hifiory of Cold, * 
But you have already too much of a letter^ and my occafr 
ons, 
So far thai Letter. Since which timej another from the fame 
Noble Obferver intimates, That^ as for that caufe of the height 
of the ^icJ^/ilver in Droughts, which by him is fufpe<9:ed to be 
the elevation of fteams from the Crufl or Superficial parts of 
thelarthj which by little and little may add to the Weight of 
the Atmofphete^ being not, as in other feafons, carried down 
from time to time by the falling Rain, it agrees not ill with 
what he has had lince occafion to obferve. For, whereas a- 
hont Mi^reh J atOxford^ the ^c\~0ver was higher, than,, 
for ought he knew^ had been yet obferv'd in England^ viz. a- 
bove above 30. Incks^ upon the firft confiderable Ihowers, 
that have interrupted our long Drought 3 as he affirms 3 he- 
foretold divers hours before that the ^ic^filver would be very 
low^Ca bluftering Wind concurring with the Rain) fo he found 
it at Stanton to fall -J beneath 29, Inches, ^ 
* Dr. Beale concurs mth this Ohfervatm.whm he faith ^ in a Uti^ 
Letter ^/March 19. to his C^rrefptj^ent inLondon ^ By change o£ 
Weather and Wind , the A^ercurj is funk more than an Inch^ 
fince I wrote to you on Mmday hk, M^^rch 12. This !aft nighty. 
% Raiij and South wind/ tis funk #sf??/^Ci&« 
Gemral 
