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frequently above the freezing point. On the 
eighteenth at night it flood at ic/ 7 and On the 
nineteenth at fix in the morning it flood at 16", at 
eight in the morning 15" .Ij at eleven at night 17". 
On the twentieth at eight in the morning it flood at 
i8, 7/ at eleven at night 22 ", On the next day, 
January twenty- firft, the frofl broke s the thermo- 
meter at four ia the afternoon ftanding at 36A 
In the country it has been obferved much colder. 
On January tenth, at Cardington in Bedfordfhire, Mr. 
Howard, Fellow of the Royal Society, by two 
thermometers, obferved the mercury, at fix in the 
evening, to Hand at q /7 . And upon the lame day 
the Rev. Mr. Wollaflon, at EaH Dereham in Nor- 
folk, found it fo low as 8". Mr. Ellinet, at Nor- 
wich, on the nineteenth of January, found his ther- 
mometer, at eight o’clock in the morning, to Hand 
at 7" ; at noon at 22 " ; at five in the afternoon 18" j 
at ten at night at 8". Seven degrees therefore is the 
lowefl point, at which I have heard the thermometer 
has flood any where in England during the late frofl. 
January tenth was the coldefl day at Plymouth, 
where Dr. Farr, a very ingenious phyfician, and 
Mr. Mudge, who has communicated feveral papers 
to the Royal Society, each obferved his thermome- 
ter to Hand at 23" and .1. 
The fevere froH of 1739, of which no account 
appears in the Philofophical Tranfaftions, began De- 
cember twenty-ninth, when Lord Charles Cavendifh s 
thermometer in his room Hood at 2 j the next 
evening 21". 
From this time his Lordfhip placed his inHrument 
out of the window, and at fome diHance from it j when 
