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path we ought to keep. At lad, animated by the 
courage of thefe women, di retted partly by their 
light and partly by their cries, we at length reached 
the cottage, much more affetted with the humanity 
of thefe good people, than hurt with the dangers and 
fatigues we had undergone. 
85. The dorm laded a great part of the night, and 
it rained almod without intermidioo. Notwith- 
standing this, the hygrometer, when expofed to the 
air the next morning, flood at 105, and the thermo- 
meter at 10. As we were uncertain how long the 
rain would continue, we fet out at eight in the 
morning on our way down. The rain hardly ceafed 
the whole morning, and was Sometimes accompanied 
with hail; it dill continued raining when we arrived 
at the abbey about noon, notwithdanding the hy- 
grometer dood there at 99, that is to fay, five degrees 
higher than when we fet out ; but the barometer, 
which had fallen the two preceding days, was now 
beginning to rife; the thermometer was at 14. 
86. We learnt at Sixt, that, at the very time we 
were driven from the Summit of the mountain by the 
difagreeable coldnefs of the air, they had felt an ex- 
ceffive degree of heat, and likewile that the Storm 
had been very violent in the night. This dorm, as 
we found two days after at Geneva, had extended it- 
felf all over the plain ^ We found like wife, from 
the obfervations that had been made there in our ab- 
fence, that a thermometer expofed to the north, con- 
sequently out of the fun, had been at 23^, at the 
very time that ours, at the top of the mountain and. 
in the fun, had. been only at 6. 
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