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From the i<5^^. in the fucceffive fpaces of twenty four 
hours, each gaind one of the number of Grains fol- 
lowing, as the 8'^ natural day gain d 13^, the next 12, 
9> 7, ^> f' T> 3, 3. 3» A> J'(December)^, 4, 3, 3, &c. 
ftill irregularly decreafing till the liquor was latiated. 
But thck /even day J, here fpecified in the Table, con- 
taining all the confiderable variety to be obferv'd in 
thisbufinefs, it would be fuperfluous and impertinent to 
trouble the Reader with any longer Diary, which was 
kept to the 4'^. of January i6%l when the Increafe in 
24 hours amounted Icarce to A^//^ a^rain, and prpbably 
had the weather been then dry, it might have been none 
at all, or rather the liquor might have lofi what before it 
had gaind ; as I fliall obferve by and by to fome other 
purpofe. But what is obvious to difcourfe upon the whole, 
relates either to the yl</«;?;2!^r, Caufes, Subjtance, §luantity 
and Time of the Increafe, or to the Vfe that may be 
made of the experiment in order to the difcovering of 
the changes ia the Air. 
Astothefirft, ths> more our liquor was Saturated, the 
//f was its dayly increafe, though not gradually lefs by 
an even defcent each day, but fometimes 2 or more na- 
tural days together it was exactly the fame, a day or two 
after lefs and then again more the next day following ac- 
cording as the liquor flood affecSted by the heat or cold, 
dry Dels or moifture of the weather, thexliffering time of 
the day and quarter of the Wind. Thus upon the view 
of the whdle Diary of almoft two months 5 it appeared, the 
increafe vi^%more in a Moift, Rainy, Mifly, and Snowy, 
but /^/r in a Frofty, Clear, andDry Seafon, as alfo was 
more in a Cold than in a Warm Air. 
When the Wind was Northerly or Eafterly the gain 
was lefs C(^teris paribus 't\i2in when Southerly or Welter- 
; ly, and was lefs in the day thau in the night. 
^ The primary caufe of this Fhienomenon feems to be the 
i, %lQiflure of the Air, which our liquor ( z poteni^ial Rtq ) 
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