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The barometer was in the morning at 27 deg. 7 min. 
and in the afternoon at 27 and a half. The air was 
a little clouded and fharp. I was in the evening at 
Valentin*. I oblerved, that an hour before fun-fet, 
there was a little above the mountains a great band 
of clouds, which contracted and lengthened them- 
felves more and more. It began in the fouth, paffed 
through the weft, and extended almoft to the north. 
I have written to Padua, and Venice, and into 
Dalmatia and the Eaft, to be informed what may 
have been obferved there. If I fhall receive any ac- 
count, I fhall take care to communicate it to you. 
Cl I. An Account of a continued Sue — 
ceffon of Earthquakes at Brigue in Va- 
lais. Written by the lieElor of the Col- 
lege of Jefuits at Brigue, and addreffed 
to Monf Jalabert, Profejfor of Philofophy 
and Mathematics at Geneva, a?td F. R. S. 
and communicated by Mr. Abraham 
Trembley, F. R. S. Fran fated from the 
Latin* 
Read April 29, TALAIS, and efpecially Brigue, have 
y almoft every ten years felt Earth- 
quakes, but never any fo confiderable as in 17 5 5-. For 
in that year, on the ift of November, which was fo 
* A palace of the king of Sardinia, 
where the Botanical Garden is 
without the walls of Turin, 
fatal 
