dayes , at 2^^ 16, 261 y ( the whole height cfthe final CyliW- 
drickglafs , whofecavity was about^ oian inch diameter , be- 
ing about 20. inches) beiidesa fmall Spherical bow! at the top, 
ot about I of an inch diwimeter 5 and a bowl at the botto4Ti , 
^ which contained the liquor, of about 2 inches diameter: eke 
fpace above the liquor being , at thefirft compofure of itj voyd 
of Air 3 favewho/t it had out of the liquor ^ which^being warm 
at the firft putting in ^ fill 'd the whole cavity while theGlafs 
was hermetically fealed. ) 
The Winter following , the liquor feem'dto remain much a- 
bout the fame temperas in the next foregoing. For in December^ 
January 3 2nd F ebruary^vjt hd^d^t 14; Froft certain 5 fometimes 
at 15. or higher 5 and theloweftj to which it did that winter 
defcend, viasi2 The height, in the following Summer, 
1666, was ufually about 1^,20,31 the higheft of all, at 2)%. 
About the end of Dcctmber 1 666jZnd the beginning oi^anmrf 
following, itwas^in hardfrofty weather^at 12^ 11, and once :it 
i-o ~;,the weather being very cold, and the liquor (it fliould icem; 
becoming fome- what lefsfpirftuous, having evaporated fonie of 
its more fubtil parts into the voyd cavity: and it was Froit certain, 
that winter, about 13 (an inch lower than the years be- 
fore^) fome-times at i^^cti^l. The ufual height in Sum- 
mer following, 1667, was about ip, 20,2.1, and the higheft 
at 24]. 
The Winter following-, it was fcarce certain froft at 13 ? but 
yet fometimes at 14^0: a little higjier: the loweft, to which it 
diddefcend that winter, (being very mild after Chrift-mafs J 
was at i 2. And the following Summer, i^58;ufually about 18,, 
1% 20 5 the higheft of all (the heat of that Summer being buE: 
very moderate ^ ) at 22. 
The next Winter it was froft certain , abour 12' > but fome- 
times, at 13. or higher .'the loweft of all, at loi, Andinthe 
Summer following, i6<59 ^ the higheft of all (being but a coot 
Summer) not much above 20 
But now this Chriftmas ^ 1669 , though I find it to be froft 
certain, about 12}, and fometimes at higher than 15 • yec hath, 
ii come fome-times lower than 8 5 andparticukrly *Z)^t^:ra^i>. 
