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189 9-' i^ounds Troy. Vvhich doubled make 37,984 In- 
ches^ the Inches the Water would have fiikd any Cylin- 
drical Veflel. 
As far as I have learn d, the Mercury rifes and falls 
much after the fame meaiure in moft parts of our Iflind, 
and of this you may better judge by (ome Obfervations 
I have here tranfcribed and fent yoj.) of the very lovV Sia- 
iLons, Dec, %Z, about Three of the Clock Mercury 
2§j7, on the 29ih about %\\, \ i8j8. and Jan, 2. 
about the faiDe Hour 28^5'. and ihis time it hardly rife 
before I went to bed; and on the 6ih ftill about 3 h. 
aS^ip.but this time before 9 at Night it was got to 29.^28. 
what I note is, that though once I faw it low er many 
Years ago, yet never fince I kept my Obfervations, did 
the Quick-filver defcend fo often to thole Pitches ; or 
when it was foutid very low, did it ever continue (0 for 
any confiderable time, as it hath done this Year, during 
which it hath never been very high, and as I remember, 
generally much lower than other Years. This hath 
proved very unftafonable here, and fb backward, that I 
thought I had never known the like ; but examining my 
Obftrvations, I find that of 1673. cnuch what as late, 
though the Conlequence proved not fo fatal to thcie 
^Parts or all Euro^s^ as t[]^s. 
