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of Rain. This although probably a matter well known 
and fcarce doubted, yet may deferve fpecial Confiderati- 
on, becaufe it will lead me to divers obfervables. Nov/ 
this is manifeft from the annexed Tables compared with 
Dr. Sch^chzers and my Weather, &c, Obfervations. 
Thus for inftance Januarjiy which Dr. Scheuchzer frequent* 
ly obferved was fomefimes warm, fometimes cold, and 
appeareth farther to have been fo by his Thermometrkal 
Column, and which was the fame with us in Sonth-Bri-^ 
tain, that Month, I fay, had plenty of Rain at Ztmch 
Vpminfter, yea, and Pifa too. The fame might be faid 
of February for Zurich, and probably Pifa too. So alio 
for December in 1707. at Pifa and Vpminfter 5 De- 
cember laft at Zurich and Vpminfter. But with us Februa- 
S was for the moft part a cold Month, and the Rain the 
lefs, by reafon the Vapours either could not be raifed in 
plenty enough, or not be carried high enough, or fuf- 
pended long enough to be united, but foon were precipita- 
ted back again to the earth. r 1 t • 
From thefe Caufes afligned, the plenty of Exhalations 
and Cold of the airy Regions, I conceived it is, that at 
Vpminfter, about the Equinoxes, we have often more Rain 
than at other Sealons. But I cannot fay this is certain 
and conftant. Thus it was at the Autumnal Equmr-x in 
1707, not only at Vpminjier, but at Pifa too : So at Zu- 
rich Pifa and Vpminjier about the Vernal in 1708. and 
at ^Zurich and Vpminfter the laft Autumnal Equinox. 
And this very 28th of March 1709. Whilft I am wnring 
this, I have a pregnant Proof of what I am faying. For 
not only the unufual Cold of the Winter hath been fuc- 
ceeded by as unufual quantities of Rain all this Months 
but at this very time the Weather is open, but w ithal cool. 
Particularly March 26, many Vapours arofe, fo as to fill 
the Air with a warm (tinking Fog. The Night fodow- 
ing a fmart (bower of Hail tell, a manifeft indication of 
the Cold of the middle, or top of the lower Reg' on of 
