(1120) 
In the morningp to 7| 5 and aid not all that day come fo high 
as 8. inches Which being fo much lower,than ever it had been 
in any of the precedent years of my obfervation, though it may 
in part be attributed to the dif-fpiriting of the liquor , yet princi- 
pally to the extremity of the Cold. 
It hath ever fince been rifing, (but with feme defcent in the 
night-time and was on January i, when the froft feem'dfirft 
to relent, fomewhat higher than 9 5 and is this day , Januar. 7 , 
about I 3t. The Barofcope at 29 5 but for fome days before, u 
was about 28 1 , (the weather having been windy and ra ny-, ) and 
foic was in the froftj about Decemh. aj^but then continued to 
rife till about januar, 2, to 2PI5 but had been Decemb. 17, ac 
30^5 whichis thehigheft 5 I have ever known it in my Baro- 
fcope-, 273' being the loweft , that I have ever obferved it in, 
(O6tob. zS. 1655 O tf^e moft ufual hight being abeut 29 , or 
fomewhat higher. 
Butjthough mine have been very rarely , and but very little, 
above jo^or lower than 28, Creckoning from the furface of the 
ftagnant QuickfilverO Yet in other peaces (according to the 
difference of Airs ) it may by others have been found either 
higher or lower : and fo likewiie, according as the Qpick filver, 
at the firft filling of the inverted Tube^was more or leis cJeanfed 
of Air. For, a very little Air, left in the Quick- filver , and un- 
difcernableto^hie Eye, will, when it gets free of it, and remains 
in the voydfpace above the Quick-filver , fenfibly deprefs the 
Quick- filver : And in the mean time, ( before it fo gets free ) will^ 
upon heat of weather,make it f^'ell. 
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