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cation and Care in extrading fuch Obfervations, as fhall 
be of Ufe, from Journals. There will alfo be fome Dif- 
ficulty in procuring any confiderable Number of fuch 
Journals \ and laftly, there is but a very frnall Num- 
ber of Obfervations made, in Comparifon to the Spaces 
that muft be allow’d in the Tables for them, by which 
Means there muft neceffarily be a great Wade. 
In x^nfwer to thefe Objedions, it may be faid in ge- 
neral, that there will be much lefs Application and Care 
requir’d than in keeping a ‘Diary of the Weather, &c. on 
the Land. By this Means alfo, there may be more Obfer- 
vations colleded in a few Years, than can be expeded 
from the other Method in fome Ages j and one Man 
may be able in a few Months, hereby to compile a lar- 
ger Hiflory of the Weather, than what has hitherto 
been done by the united Obfervation of all fuch, as have 
undertaken this Province. 
Tho’ there might bg fome Difficulty as to f articular 
i Verfons in procuring a great Number of Journals, it 
cannot be fuppos’d, that fo illuftrious a Body of Men as 
the Royal Societies at London and Baris, ffiould meet 
with the fame. It is obfervable alfo, that in the Royal 
Navy of Great-Britain , the Mailers of the Mathema- 
ticks are oblig’d to keep fuch a Journal by an Ad in 
the late Reign, on Board every Ship, which without 
Doubt might be eafily obtained on this Occation : Nor 
can we imagine any in the trading Intereft would re- 
fufe a Thing, that tended fo much to their own Advan- 
tage and Benefit. 
It is true, there can be no Remedy for- the many em- 
pty Spaces in the Tables, ( if that Method be follow’d 
which I have propos’d ; ) however this will be look’d 
upon as a trifling Objedion, by fuch as confult the Im- 
provement 
