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the midft of fummer never reaches till 6 o’Clock 
P. M. and in winter never: and the cafe in which 
the tube of Quickfilver is fixed communicates with 
the open air, by three holes lined with tin, pierced 
through the munnion of the window to which it is 
fixed ; fo that tho 7 it is not in the open air, yet muft 
the Quickfilver be expofed to every extremity of the 
Atmofphere byconftant intercourfe. 
You will judge that our cold was no ways ex- 
ceffive, when I add, that the balm of Gilead, in 
the natural open ground, has not differed : the myr- 
tles are in perfect health : the mignonettes in flower : 
the clufter rofe and white Violet in bloom at Chrift- 
mas ; and at the fame time I had the fcarlet double 
ranunculus full blown given me by a neighbour. 
The double hyacinths have formed their bells, and 
fome are now ready to unfold. 
It has not (I believe) been remembered in the age 
of man, that in the weft of Cornwall we have ever 
had fuch a long continuance of eaflerly winds. 
About the middle of Nov. for 14 days the wind 
had its prevailing turn from the eaft. — It was eafl- 
erly, with a variation now and then (a point or two) 
to the north or fouth, every day of December, ex- 
cepting the 2 1 ft, when it blew W. S. W. and S. S. W. 
— and to this 2 2d day of January it has blown 
everyday from the eaft, varying half a point or fb 
to the S. or N. 
Since I have entered into thefe latter difquifitions 
on the feafon, give me leave to add the quantity of 
water fallen here in the year 1762, 
January 
