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&)utbwinds blowing, or the Weft and South- weft, the Deal then 
alwaies relaxes that day, or at leaft is at a ftay , provided this 
happen in the day time ; for then, if in the night, not fo much ; 
and fo this will do fomeconfiderable time before Rain. 
6. By a conftant obfervation of this Experiment of the Deals 
Motion and Reft,you may be able to know or guefs at theWio^ls 
fcituation without a Weather- cock,provided you have by y©u 
a common and a fealed Thermometer, 
7. Alfo you may know the time of Year; for in the Spring 
it moves quicker and more than in Winter; in Summer it is more 
fljrunk than in the Spring ; in Autumn lefs in motion than in the 
Summer- Other Obfervations may be made more nice 5 thefc 
only in genecal.at prefent. 
Only I (halladd this following Experiment with a Conje- 
fture from thence.Confidering with my felf^thata Fagot or other 
Wood laid upon the fire , the heat then vifibly caufes moifture 
to come out of the Ends only. This occafioned the making of 
the following Experiment, to find whether then the moifture 
was not rarified out of the fmall Cylinder , like ends of the 
wood, only^ or out of the fides alfo. 
I took therefore feafoned Deal, two pieces^ weighing the 
one piece and the other the night before; but the of the 
one piece I clofedup withUi/if^/Zo^P/^e^*, but the^z^^j of 
this Deal Idid not foclofeup; but left thefe fides with the 
other piece without Diachylon. Both being expofed to theopen 
Air, they were found the next day both of them alike to have 
increafed in proportion of Weight, which fecms to prove, that 
the Sides alfo do take in and let out Moifture, Yet it doth ap- 
pear,that in warmer weatherMoifture paflfes freeft and more out 
of the Ends of the wood, than it doth in colder weather. 
From whence \ do conjediure, that Deal-wood, as it hath 
a fit texture and body for moi^ure and dr ought ^heat and €old and 
fuch I ike qualities to bedlfcovered thereby , fo it doth much 
like the fame thing with what is alfo performed by the whole 
body of the outward mafs of this globe of Earfh5 as may be 
made appear by forty other Experiments , not commonly 
known; yst this varyingaccording to the time of year, and 
clime in Longitude and Latitude^ 
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