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learned Fleetwood guefied neareft the Truth, fup- 
pofing it the 4th Part not . of any Meafure, but — - 
of fome Load or Weight [ Chron. Pretiof. p. 72 3. 
I wonder he flopped here, and did not obferve what 
that Load of Weight was, viz. a Tun or 2000 
Pound: But th z Avoirdupois Ton, in Ufe at prefent 
for all grofs Weights, threw fuch a M'ift upon the 
Subjeft as could not eafily be feen through. 
From the original and natural Signification of rhe 
word Hundred , it plainly appears, that Twenty hun- 
dred , or a Ton , mud be exactly Two thoufand 
Weight. 
II. An Account of a 7 * rafi intituled , Jo. Fri- 
derici Weidleri Commentatio de Parheliis 
tyknfe Januario Anni 1736. prope Petro- 
burgum Angliae & Vitembergae Saxonum 
vifis. Accedit de rubore coeli igneo Menfc 
Decembri Anni obfervato Corol^ 
larium. Vitembergae, 1 758. 4®. ‘Drawn 
up by Tho. Stack, M. D, F. R. S. 
^ J 1 HIS Traft is divided into 17 Sections. In the 
JL 1 ft 2nd zd the Author deferibes his own Obfer- 
vation of T wo Mock-Suns at Wittemberg , on Jan. 
11. 173 5-d, N.S. .In the 3 d he gives a Meteoro- 
logical Diary from Jan. 1. to 18. and in the 4 th 
the Rev d Mr. Neves Obfervation on of Two 
Parhelia near Peterborough. But thefe Defcriptions 
have been already communicated to the Royal So- 
N n n 2 ciExr.' 
