(i $6) 
to a Mercurial Carre, and fake all my 
The Exctufan of all ifir Notes from it, This Cane is but gy. 
w here wcefarj , became Inches long, of a very {lender Cavity, 
£«#£ fubjefa to the ope- an d c hj c k Glafs. This may eafily be 
ration tf Heat a»d Cold if conve y ec j to an y place, for Trials. 
rometer, itmUcMe itn The Veffel for * e ft»goa«ng Mer ■ 
vary from freeing the true Wfr into which the laid Cane is im- 
Prefture of the Air. merfed, is about two Inches wide. The 
Mercury fo well fill’d , that for fome 
daies it would not fubfide , but hung to the top of the Glafs- 
cane. 1 keep it in a Clofet pretty clofe, 9. foot high, 8. foot 
broad, 1 y. foot long ; neer a Window. This I note, becaufe 
pcffibly the clofeoefs of the room may hinder , that it gives 
not the full of all Changes , as it might in a more pafTable 
3. In all my Qbfervations from May 28% 1 664. to- this pre- 
fent (December 9. 1 66 $-J the Quickhlver never afcended but 
very little above 301 Inches. 
5. It afcended very feldom fo high ( videl . to 3 clinches) 
chiefly in Decemb. x 3. 16.64, the weather being fickle, fair, E- 
vening. 
4. I find by my Calender of June 22. 1 664. at y. in the Mor- 
ning, in a time of long fetled fair weather, that the Mercury 
had afcended about half an Inch higher then 30: but I fear 
dome miftake, becaufe I then took no impreffion of wonder at 
it i yet for 3 , + or 4. daies, at that time it continued high, in welh 
fetled, fair and warm weather; moft part above 30. Inches. So 
that I may note, the Mercury to rife as high in the hotteft Sum- 
mer , as in the col deft Winter -weather. 
y. Yet furely I have noted it afcend a little higher for the : 
Coldnefs of the Weather 3 and very frequently, both in Win- ■ 
ter* 
