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for the future^ being well provided with a Barometer^ fealed 
Jhermometers ^ Hygrofcofes ^ and all things requifit to the perfor- 
mance of fo nice and necefTary a Task. Totranfcribe my Journall 
here would be tootedioiis y and needlefs, untill \ have made far- 
iherobfervations. Let it fuffxe therefore ro tell you ; that\t\\diih 
been a very fair and warm , or rather no winter at all, that we 
have not had above five or fix frofty moroings this winrer, and 
none that lafled longer than till noon;that we had Snow but thrice^ 
the firfl: beforeChriltmafSjthe fecond upon the i i/A.and third upon 
ther 7//^. oijamary: This laft, which was the longeft Snow we had 
this winter^ continued not 48 hours, but thawed. All this winter^ 
wenever had two daies of rain together , nor above two or three 
that could well be called rainy da'its. March i^th.wt hada fliower 
of rain and hail together; the wind beirg S. W. and calm. The Mer- 
cury in my Barometer (which is very flender,but carefully filled, 
and conveniently placed) is for the moft part about 297^ irches 
high above the furface of the fiagnant Qnickfilver ; but yet doth 
very fenfibly and frequently vary i;s height according to the diffe- 
rence of the Atmofpheres grsivityijamary r 7/^.(\vhich u as the day 
it laft fnowed here) the^ was fubfided to 28^ inches. The next 
day it was at: 2 8^being towards night fomewhat blufteringjand the 
fnow thawed. Jan. 1 9^^. being fair but very foggy, thegwas at 
28]-, which is theloweftftation it was ever at yet with n.e 5 the 
wind was weflerly and calm. The next day it was Dp regain to 29 
and afterwards higher. Fek i^th. in the morning being cloudy, 
the windWefl:erlyand biuftering,they wasat 29-^; and about ir 
that night, beingfair,clear and calm , it was rifen to 30-^ inches. 
The next day being ftill fair and calm, it was at 36-^ inches; which 
is the utmofl height I have yet feen it at. Next day it fell a little 
beneath 30, and kept, as before, for the moft part abour29-^- or 
to this prefentj only on the t jth^of March it w^as at 30 again, 
Thou^ it beobfervedjthac frofty and ihowy winters make early 
fpring% and for as little as we have had of either this winter, yet 
there hath not within theMemory of any now living happened- a 
forwarder Spring in Ireland \ fince this place could produce fome 
ftoreof ripe Cherries in the midft of ^/>r/7.The wind keeps for 
the moft part here between the North- weft and the South, feldom at 
Eaft,and yet feldomer at North or North-eaft, infomuchthat many 
here don't fcruple toaffirm, ihatfor at leafl^of the year the wind is 
-Wefter! v; and we have fometimes known paflengers wait at Chejfir 
SiHofy hfadnohf 5 than three months for a fa^r wind, to come hither. 
IhG hygrofcopc I make ufe of, I thus contrived. I took two 
