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From the 1 5th of December to the end of the 
month, the weather has fet in colder, and more 
fnow and froft than has been known for feveral years. 
The fpirits varied from 80. great cold to po. and the 
Mercurial from 45- to 38. During the month of Ja- 
nuary, from 88 to 94, 95-, and 98. and the Mercurial 
from 35 to 30. 
From the 15th of January to the 20th, the wind 
varied to S. W. and S. E. the Ther. at 88. Merc, at 
38. rofe gradually to 8i. and 4y. accompanied with 
a thaw. 
On the 2cth, the ^vind came about ftrong, blow- 
ing hard about E. N. E. mizzling rain, mix’d with 
fleet, without confiftency. We had three ftrong vi- 
brating fliakes of an earthquake at 12. 34'. Koon 
Spirits at 83. Merc. 42. and Bar. at betwen i. and o! 
tolerable good weather, and changeable 5 and tho" 
the cold greatly increaffed, another was felt on the 
23d at 10. 3®' the fnow falling thick, hard 
frod, wind N. E. Spirit 91. and Merc. 36. 
The beginning of February fnow continued, and 
cold augmented j we have had the greated known, 
at lead remembered here. The 4th the Spirits funk 
under 100. and the Merc. Ther. at 28. I'he canal, 
which feparates Pera from the city, was frozen over^ 
from the arfenal up to the frefh- water river. ^ 
P>om thefe obfervations it doth not appear, that there 
aj-e any fixed or probable prognodics of earthquakes ; 
but that they come on us indiferiminately in the midd 
of high winds and calms, heat and cold, rain, fnow, 
and fair weather ; fo that no other connexion can be 
fufpeded of thefe with the atmofphere, than merely 
the collected mafs of igneous exhalations, perceived oa 
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