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Remarks on the Meteorological Obfervations of 
the Tear 1718. 
As the Obfervations of this Year, which the Royal 
Society hath received from many, and very diftant 
Parts of the World, are two large and numerous to be 
printed in the Philofophical Tranfaftions , or read 
at the Society’s Meetings ; fo to make them as ufeful 
as pofiible, I have put as many of them as I could 
into Tables, to be feen and compared at an eafy 
View, as I have done in former Years : But I am 
forced to omit fuch of them, where no Account is 
given of the Inftruments they ufed, or where none 
were made ufe of at all, but only verbal Defcription* 
given, that Tables would nor admit of. But the 
Places mentioned in the Tables, had the Society’s 
Glaffes of Mr. Haukesbee > s making. 
The Barometrical Obfervations I need not fatiate 
the Society with Remarks upon, becaufe 1 have made 
divers of that Kind, upon the preceding Years: 
only I fhall repeat two Things that I formerly took 
notice of, and have had frequent Confirmations of 
this Year:, viz. 1. The great Conformity of the 
Afcents, Defcents, and Stations of the Mercury in 
the Barometer. 2. That the Range of the Mer- 
cury is much greater in the Northerly than 
Southerly Climes, 
As for the Thermometrical Obfervations, I have 
inferted all that were made with the Royal Society's 
Glafles : but fuch as were made with other Thermo* 
meters, it would have been of little or no ufe to have 
taken notice of them, unlefs I could have reduced them 
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