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XXV. Letter to Mr, Dacofta, Librarian , 
&?c. to the Royal Society, from Mr. Wil- 
liam Martin ; containing an ExtraEl of a 
Letter from his Son at Bengal, on the Heat 
of the Climate . 
S I R, 
Head April 3©, E candid reception I met with* 
,?67 ' JL when I took the liberty of ad- 
drefling you in November 1764 by my friend John 
■Ellis, Efqj a cafe fomewhat uncommon, em- 
boldens me, at this time, to communicate^ part of 
a letter I have lately received from my fon, Fleming 
Martin, Efqj chief engineer at Bengali, dated iff 
odtober 1765 j giving an account of the incredible 
heat attending that climate, with fome other obfer- 
vations, &c. If you think it worthy of being com- 
municated to the Royal Society, it will afford me the 
greatefl pleafure j but this I muft beg leave to l'ubmit 
to your judgment, and am, with great refped. 
Sir, your moil obliged 
humble fertfant, 
Shadwell, 30 April, 
1766. 
V o*l, LVII. 
Ff 
William Martin. 
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