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even in trifles 5 yet how lazy or unwilling the whole Tribe is to 
make proof, either of that force or kind of Sukerraneal Steams^ 
or of Celefiial or Ethereal hfluences ; no, not of the Moon, or any 
Planet or Conftellation, to any confiderable accuratenefs the Su;$ 
indeed will not permit all his Power to be concealed from the 
dulleft of Mankind^ but certainly, as the Tenyperate weather of 
the Spring differs, in efficacy , from che Temperate weather of the 
Autumn; the Sunfliineof the jE4y?,from the Sunfiiineof theW>/; 
May derv^ from the de-w of Augufi\ the keenwiWj of March ^^xo\\\ 
winds of the fame keenefs in Jmuary^ ^c. fo one w^ould be apt to 
think, the Increafe or Decreafe of the .the Pm^^^ or the 
Apogee^diTid perhaps the L/^r4f»w,lately difcovered^as the Afpeds 
of other J^lancts ^ and thofe Conjlelkiions xo v^\Ac\\ d\\ the Old 
Gw^/V^/ Writers do attribute fo much , may have their peculiar 
efFefts, if duly and luckily examined. We can hardly imagine, that 
ditFarnham^ and other places, where many hundreds of Acres of 
ftrong-fented Hopps are fully ripe, be given no peculiar indication 
befides odour in iheAir ; or v^hen large fields of Beam and Peafe 
are in full bloflrom,that they have no efFec3:, befides the Odour^ And 
for Miner ahxid other Subterraneal Steams, the Barojcopes^ with 
comparing other circumftances, may feem to indicate, when they 
afcend with more than ordinary impetuofity,and when rebated. In 
all my Obfervations, I alwaies found the Air lightejl in the greateft 
Storms, and a little before 5 and at the beginning of great falls and 
continued Rain* 
thirdly^ I inftancethe Statical Hygrofcope , which is fo fully 
expreflfed and direfied by the fame Mr* Boyle , that *tis eafie for an 
ordinary Capacity, with a little diligence , to make confiderable 
Difcoveriesby it, for the near concernments of Mans4iealth, 
Many other Inflances I could name, wh ch, if we had fucha 
MdiW dL^Mx. Sellar y who could employ V/orkmen to perfeft the 
Inftruments, and to fell themofF^ it would (doub lefs) procure 
gs many Operatours, and many free Difcoverles in f^me points of 
Fhihfophy^ of wbich^e have yet heard but little Tydings. 
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