37° Sir George shuckburgh on the Variation 
Table of obfervations continued. 
i Number. | 
Place of ©bfervation. 
Height of 
the baro- 
meter. 
1 
I e 
1 
c: 
0 
1 Baromc* 
jtcr reduc- 
ed to the 
j heat of 
5 °°‘ 
j . 
Boiling 
point. 
2 
Mean 
boiling 
point. 
Inch. 
0 
Inch. 
0 40ths. 
0 iooths 
14 
London,* Dec. 25, 17.78, 
3°> 8 38 
47 
3°, 8 47 
214,35 ' 
214.32 
2H,33 
214.34 : 
214.35 
214 31 
214.33 j 
1 
} 
1 . 
214,83 
15 
Ditto, at the Adelphi^j 
Wharf, feet above high } 
water, Dec. 26, a 7 7 8, J 
3°, 94 %{d) 
1 
47 
3°>957 
214,35 
214.39 
214.40 
214,38^ 
214.41 
214,37 
214,41 
214,40 
214,40 
214,34 J 
> 
214,15 
The numbers in the fifth column are the corrected 
heights of the barometer reduced to one and the fame 
temperature, viz. 5© 0 , which was neceffary in order to 
have the true proportion of the preffure of the atmo- 
fphere, whole influence feems to have fo confiderable a 
(d) This is the greateft height of the barometer that I have ever known, and, 
as far as I have been able to cdlle£l the higheft point, that it has ever been feen 
<to % fbind.at in any country where obfervations have been made and recorded, 
iincQ the xirft invention of this ingenious inilrument. 
fhare 
