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receive greater Increments from the melting of the Al'iihe 
Snows, than from all the wet proceeding trora their Rair 
But as I have been long alread]^ thefe things would add 
more to the length of what I have faid ^ and therefore [ 
fhall rather chufe to refer to his Obfervations at large^ 
than injure them by an Abridgfnent. 
Here I was putting an end to my Remarks, but in the 
fame moment I received Letters from the betorc-commended 
Dr. Newton from Florence^ and Dr. AI. A, THU from Pifa» 
Inrhelaterof which are fome Obfervations that fo dired- 
ly relate to what I have before taken notice of, that 1 
* muft beg Pardon for a fmall Addition to what I have 
faid. 
Dr. Tilirs half Year’s Rain coming too late, I have 
put it alone in the additional Table. From which Table 
compared with the foregoing Tables it appears, that al* 
though, in the Year before, Jme and other Summer- 
Months were dry^ yet laft June was a wet Month at Flfa^ 
as well as Zurich and Upminfler^ and fo likewife was it 
about the Autumnal Equinox: and for the fame Realons, 
1 imagine, which I have already mentioned. 
As to the Excefs of the Pifa-Rain above that of other 
Places ("concerning which I wrote to Dr- Tillij he attri- 
buteth it to the fame caufe fhe faith ) that I did tlm of 
Lancajhire, namely, the Height of the Hdls^ and the Blow 
ing of the Windf for a long time from fome one §)uarter. 
His Obfervation is this, Libenter admitto Pluviam nojiram 
femper^ vel ut plurimfm veflram fuperare^ ca fane ratione ut 
animadvertijii 5 preecipu ft afpera Corfica ja- 
ga, autumni tempore, nive cito cooperiantur : Tunc Aufsraler 
venti diu vigent d* Imbres, Aquilonarcs verd frequentins 
circa Florenttnos colles, quim circa Pifanam urbem fpirare 
plane conftat, EJl enim h£c civitas a Boreu circumdata mon* 
tibus, depart intervallo circa milliaria quinque difat a mart. 
The fame Account of the Situation of Pifa, and the 
great quantity of Rain falling there, I remember I had fome 
time 
