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tuclc?, the Wind , its 'Degree , or Strength , and the 
Weather , which are accordingly mark’d with W. D. 
Weather. 
In this Specimen 1 have noted every Degree of Lati- 
tude and' Longitude, that the Work might be the more 
perfect. I have only taken Notice of Four Hours in the 
Day, viz. 12 at Noon, 6 in the Afternoon, n at 
Night, and 6 in the Morning. However, if there be 
requir’d a greater Exa&nefs in this Article, it will 
be eafy enough to frame Tables accordingly. I be- 
gan the Hours with 12 at Noon, becaufe all Journals 
are kept from that Period, the Marine Day being al- 
ways counted from Noon to Noon. There may be 
other Columns inferted, as I fhall mention in theClofe 
of this Letter, tho’ what I have already taken Notice 
of is fufficient to our prefent Defign. 
Of thefe Sort of Tables there mud be at leaffc Four 
Volumes-, One for the Atlantick Ocean , which will be 
by far the larged of them ail, and perhaps the mod: 
profitable, as mod of the Trade of the World lies there- 
on j the fecond for the Mediterranean ^ and the others 
for the German Sea and Baltic k. In Procefs of Time 
alfo, it may perhaps be thought worth the while to pre- 
ferve fuch Obfervations as are made on the Indian Sea , 
and the Bacific Ocean . 
I mufl acknowledge my felf incapable of making a 
juft Comparifon between the Advantages and Inconve- 
niences attending fuch a tabular Regifier of the Winds 
and Weather, as 1 have propofed } however, I will take 
the Liberty to mention one or two Things, by which 
you will fee how the Matter appears unto me. 
It mud be confefs’d, that the Work will be very 
much protra&ed, and require fome confiderable Appli- 
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