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between the lad: Line and the End of the Paper, for 
the Bill of Mortality. 
The feven perpendicular Lines are for the feven 
'Days of the Week ; which, in our Diary , begins with 
th cfr/l Day, according to the Jewifh Account, by us 
called the Sabbath , or Sunday. If you therefore carry 
your Eye along the Paper from Left to Right, you 
may, at one View, fee the Weight of the Air , and 
the Degrees of Heat and Moifture, &c. for the whole 
Week. If you carry your Eye from Top to Bottom 
down the Column, for any one Day, you fee regularly 
the Whole of the Obfervations in one Line for that 
Day. Four Pages, or Weeks, we allow to each 
Month, and then leave a void Page for the Obfer- 
vations made in that Month ; and the overplus ca- 
lendary Days are carried on to the Page allotted for 
the next Month; only taking care to deferibe in 
every inch Page, where the Ending and Beginning 
of two different Months are to be found, the Names 
of both the Months, dire&ly over their final and 
initial Day. 
The Abftrad of the weekly Bill of Mortality is 
apparently a Part of Obfervation peculiar to this Plan, 
under which Article all acute Cafes, depending on 
the State of the Air , are fet down. Perhaps 
the Ignorance of the Searchers , appointed to infpedt 
dead Bodies, as to the precife Difeafes People die of, 
may lay this Method open to Objection: To which 
it may be fufficient to anfwjer, That this being ob- 
vioufly a requifite Article for a Diary , we muff be 
content to take our Advices on this Point from fuch 
Hands, rather than none; efpecially, as all Political 
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