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X. This Month of April alfo Horfes were every 
where feized with dangerous Coughs ; of which 
many died in London, and other Places, efpecidly fuch 
as laboured on the Roads. I have great Reafon to 
think thefe Colds were catching, btcaufe my Horfes 
that went well to London* returned ’with great and 
fudden Colds, 
XL June 1 1 (although it was the Day of the 
Summer Solftice ) was enfued with a very cold 
Night, my Thermometer defending nearly to the 
Point of an Hoar-Frofh 
RE M ARKS on tie f A £ L E S of 
1715 and 1716. 
The late ingenious Mr. Robie y at my Requeft, was 
pleafed to make, in New-Englandi Meteorological 
Obfervations , Morning, Noon and Night, to cor* 
refpond with mine at the fame Time at Upminjler . 
Thefe Obfervations he made in 1715, £fc. to the 
End of ryzx, and ordered them to be fent to our 
Royal Society , and accordingly I received them, 
not long lince, from his ingenious SucceiTor at Har- 
vard*College 9 Is/lx. If. Greenwood, and no w prefent 
them, with my own, to the Society . 
But by reafon they are too long to be read at th e Soci- 
ety^ Meetings, or to be inferred in the ifrayif. atdions , I 
have therefore made the foregoing Extradtfrom them, 
together with fome Obfervations of my own, which 
tally with them. 
But I am forry that Mr. Robies Obfervations want 
thofe of the Barometer and Thermometer : Neither of 
which 
