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TRANSACTIONS. 
XVI. An abridged State of the Weather at London in the 
Tear 1774, colle died from the Meteorological Journal 
of the Royal Society. By S. Horfley, LL,D. Sec, R. S. 
L T H O U G H the pra6tice of keeping meteorologi- 
cal journals is, of late years, become very general, 
no information of any importance hath yet been derived 
from it. The reafon of which perhaps may be, that after 
great pains and attention bellowed in regiftering particu- 
lars, as they occur, with a fcrupulous minutenefs,obferver$ 
have not taken the trouble to form, at proper intervals of 
time, compendious abllra6ls of their records, exhibiting 
the general refult of their obfervations in each dillindl 
branch of meteorology. The following tables are given 
as an example of the method that may be taken in fu- 
ture to remedy this negiedl. With the general Hate of 
the barometer and thermometer, already given at the 
end of the meteorological journal, they form a hillory 
of the weather at London durmg the lall year. If the 
example were to be followed, in different parts of the 
kingdom, we might in time be furnilhed with an expe-. 
rimental hillory of the weather of our illand. 
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