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I only add my ardent wifhes, that a number of 
gentlemen, reading at a diftance from each other, 
would agree to make regular obfervations of the 
weather, with inftruments of the fame conftrudtion, 
and framed by the fame hand. Their regifters would 
be worthy to ftand on record ; and, hy comparing 
them, an improvement might be made in the natu- 
ral hiftory of the air, fo juflly complained of, as be- 
ing very defective : and from thence might enfue be- 
nefit to the public in feveral refpedls. I am. 
Dear Sir, to you 
Tooting, Feb. and the Royal Society, 
1755. 
a faithful humble fervant, 
H. Miles. 
* 755 - 
Mr. Canton’s regiller of his 
Thermometer, in Spital- 
fquare, London. 
The regiller of my Thermo- 
meter, at Lower-Tooting, 
in Surrey. 
Feb. 8. 2*'.p,fn. 27 
C - - - - 8^. p.m. 20 
i In the middle of the garden 1 6 
5 At midnight - - - 
I In the middle of the garden 1 1 
Feb. 9. - - - 2i| 
- 30^ 
Feb. 7th .... 6**. OT. 31. 
2^. p. m. 33. 
.... 8^. p. m. 30. 
cloudy all day, and W. 
high at E. 
y**. a.m. \~i\. 2**. p.m. 26{- 
cloudy W.E. 
8 ^. p.m. I9j 
clear. 
At 6^. a. m. 23. not lower 
after, cloudy. W. S. E, 
2^. w. 33*. very cloudy 
W. S. E. 
S'*, p. m. 38./. cloudyall. 
W. S, B. 
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