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could pretend to, or even thought of. Had but each 
County in England Gentlemen of fuch Sentiments, 
who would charge themfelves with the annual Trou- 
ble of fending a regular Account of the Weather to 
this learned Body , by it to be compared and digefted, 
to what Degrees of Accuracy may we not fuppofe a 
Knowledge of the Nature and Affe&ions of the At- 
wofphere may be brought; and how well may we 
not hope to be guarded againft the Diforders, which, 
as IJlanders , we are expofed to, by fuch a clofe In- 
quiry into the Nature of that necelfary Fluid in which 
we breathe ! Not to mention the Advantages which 
feveral important Branches of Trade may receive from 
fuch Meafures: And were the digefted Obfervations 
of the Royal Society compared with thofe of foreign 
Societies, formed upon the fame Plan, how fhort a 
Time would bring this Part of Philofophy to the 
greateft Degree of demonftrable Certainty! 
The Trouble ofmaking and keeping fuch Meteoro- 
logical Regifi ers, which, in all Probability, prevents 
feveral Gentlemen from performing this Piece of Ser- 
vice to the Public, might be rendered very incon- 
iiderablc, by the Propofal cf an eafy, as well as com- 
prehenlive, Method for a c Diary i and a Set of limple 
and convenient Machines for making the neceflary 
Obfervations. 
The Plan of the Epkemeridcs Ullra-jeffince , tho’ 
cornprchenfive, is, with Submiflion, very perplex’d $. 
and the feveral others, mention’d in the Ehilofophi- 
cal Tranfiiffions, perhaps, do not include all the Par- 
ticulars of which fuch a dDiary fhould confift. The 
Society of Edinburgh has prefaced to their Medical 
Effag.s a Scheme (which I had not the Pleafurc of 
feeing 
