extraordinary Degree of Cold at Glafgow. 453 
Thurfday morning, 
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At 6 o’clock this morning 1 carried the thermometer 
over to the Obfervatory Park, and when it was there laid 
down upon the fnow the mercury funk to gr. 1,3 below 
o. Your friend Profeffor anderson foon after arriving, 
we repeated the obfervation with an excellent thermo- 
meter made by Mr. rams den, and it agreed exactly with 
the other. 
At this time we thought it unnecelfary to flay abroad 
fo long in the cold as to try the temperature of the air by 
hanging up the thermometers, efpecially as we imagined 
that this had been done more readily, and as truly, by tak- 
ing the degree from the furfaee of the fnow which had been 
O o o % expofed 
