fnow. This fcem’d to manifcft > that the Air, being difcharged 
of the clouds by fnow 3 became lighter. 
iy. I have feldomfeen the change to be very great, at any 
one time. For., though I do not now take a deliberate view 
of my Notes, yet I wonder'd once to fee, that in one day it 
fubfided about \ ofan inch. 
1 6. Of late I have altered my Method upon the Barometer , 
obfervingit, as it is before my Eyes, ail day long, and much 
of the night, being watchful for the moments of every par- 
ticular change, to examine, what caufe in the Air and Heavens 
may appear for fuch changes. And now my wonder is, to fee, 
how flow it is, it holding molt between the nine and twentieth 
and thirtieth inch of late. 
17. Imuft now^lanuary 13. 166%) tell you, thattheAAr- 
cury ftands at, this time ( as it did alfo yefterday 7 a quarter a- 
bove 50. inches } yet both days very dark and cloudy, fome- 
times very thick and mifty Air ; which feldom falls out. For, 
for the moft part, 1 fee it higher in cleareft feded weather, 
than in fuch cloudy and mifty Foggs. This thick Air and 
darknefs hath lafted above a week j lately more Cold, and 
Eafi and ’North-Eafl wind. 
Thus far the Notes of this Obferving Divine $ of which Mr. 
Beyle^o whom they were alfo communicated, entertains thefe 
thoughts, that they feem to him very faithfully made, and do 
for the main, agree well enough with his obfervations, as 
far as he remembers, not having them, it feems, at that time, 
when he wrote this, at hand ; and though it be wifhed by him 3 
that the Obferver’s Glafs-Cane had 
been, fomewhat bigger ; yet his dili- 
gence in fitting it fo carefully, or ra- 
ther fo skilfully , as is above-mentio- 
ned, is much by him commended. 
Some 
This ferns to be mjhedjbe- 
caufe the motion of theMet- 
iary may be more free in a 
wider Cane. 
