lamitieSjfor by this means it is doubtlefs^th at the Learned 
Dr^Goadot LondonM^s Arrived to that pitch of knowledg, 
he already has.in predidting weather, &c. i. e. by making 
fuch old Almanacks as this for many years.in ftead of new 
onesi which if once faithfully done in divers parts of the 
world (as it is now happily begun J. we fhall certainly 
©btain more reall andufefpll knowledg in thefe matters 
in a few years, then we have yet arrived to, in many Cen^ 
turies: which no queftion was the opinion of the induf- 
trious Walter Merle Fellow of Merton Coll. who thus 
obferved the weather here at Oxford try day of the 
month, (even years together x^?;^. from Jan, 1537 to Jan. 
1344; the MS. Copy of which Obfervaiious are yet remain- 
ing in the Bodleyan Library; and doubtlefs 'twas fome 
luch conlideration as this, that moved Erafmus Bartholin 
to make Obfervations of the weather every day of the 
month through the whole year i(57i whix:h are ptinted 
inter Alia Medua Tho Bartholi?it\ l>iovr Sir if thefe worthy 
G^;z^. thought it w^orth their while, laborioufly to make 
fuch^^^/^rz;^^/^???^ without the helps that you have afford- 
ed us,' how fupine hadwe been, if we had forborn to pro- 
lecute it 3 lam fure I conld Hot have thought my f^If 
otherwife, had I neglected it, after I had received the 
commands of fo judicious a Society, and ihQ rather be- 
caufethen too, I lhould have rudely flighted an Inven- 
tion of yours, who have always aflForded me the inefti 
mable Charader of ^^^^ 
Tour mojl jaiilfult 
FreindRoh, Plot. 
