Numb, 405*. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS 
E O R THE 
Month of NOVEMBER, 1718. 
The CONTEN TS. 
I. The Barometrical Method of ?neaf tiring the Height 
of Mountains , with two new Tables Jhewing the 
Height of the Atmosphere at given Altitudes of 
Mercury. Extra tied chiefly from the ObferVa- 
t ions of John James Scheuchzer, M. V . Bro. 
feffor of Mathematicks at Zuric, and a Member 
of the Imperial , and R oyal Societies of London 
and Pruffia. By J. G. Scheuchzer, M. V. 
R S* Coll . Med. Lond L/c. 
II. ObferVations of a Difference of Sex in Mifleto, 
in a Letter from the (Reverend Mr. Edmund 
Barrel to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. See. 
IN. An uncommon Sinking of the Ground in Kent. 
Communicated in a Letter to Mr. Peter Col- 
li nfon. 
1 IY. OR 
