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Cl I, A?i Account of the Heat of the W za- 
ther in Georgia : In a Letter from his 
Excellency Henry Ellis, Efq\ Governor of 
Georgia, and F. R . S . to John Ellis, Efq; 
F. R. S. 
Dear Sir, Georgia, 17 July, 1758. 
Read Nov. 16, rT^ H O’ fome weeks have paJTed lince 
175 8. j wrote to y 0Uj y et f Q ii tt i e alter- 
ation has happened in the ftate of our affairs, that 
nothing occurs to me relative to them worth com- 
mitting to paper. This indeed I need not regret, as 
one cannot fit down to any thing, that requires much 
application, but with extreme reluctance ; for fuch 
is the debilitating quality of our violent heats at this 
leafon, that an inexpreflible languor enervates every 
.faculty,, and renders even the thought of exercifing 
them painful. 
’Tis now about three o’ clock ; the fun bears nearly 
S. W. and I am writing in a piazza, open at each 
end, on the north-eaft fide of my houfe, perfectly in 
the lhade : a fmall breeze at S. E. blows freely 
thro’ it ; no buildings are nearer, to refleCt the heat, 
than 60 yards : yet in a thermometer hanging by 
me, made by Mr. Bird, and compared by the late 
Mr. George Graham with an approved one of his 
own, the mercury ftands at 102. Twice it has rifen 
this fummer to the fame height ; viz. on the 28th of 
June, and the 11th of July. Several times it has 
been at 100, and for many days fucceflively at 98 ; 
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