6q Dr. Hunter’s Obfervatlons on the Heat 
The following fprings were examined with much accuracy 
by the Hon. Mr. Sewell, Attorney General of the Ifland. 
Ayfcough’s fpring, on the road from Spanifh Town to 
Pufey’s, in St. John’s parifh, 75 0 . 
Pufey’s fpring, hill higher in the mountains, 7 2°f. 
A fpring near the baracks at Points Hill in St. John’s 
parifh, 70°. 
The thermometer in the (hade at Pufey’s, during part of 
the month of June, was found to range from 69T to 79°!. 
It was obferved both late at night, and early in the morning 
before fun* rife. 
The fpring in Brailsford Valley, about ten miles above Spa- 
nifh Town, is 75 0 . The fpring at Stoney Hill is 71 0 . Thefe 
were examined by Mr. Home. 
Mr. Wallen’s houfe, at Cold Spring, hands the higheh of 
any in the ifland. By a meafurement, faid to have been made 
by Mr. M c Farlane, it is reported to be 1400 yards above 
the level of the fea. On the road to it, and about a mile be- 
low Mr. Wallen’s houfe, there is a fpring that ilfues from 
the fide of the hill, of the temperature of 6 5 0 . Cold Spring, 
which gives a name to the place, is about fifty feet below the 
houfe, and the heat of it is 6i°|. The thermometer in the 
fhade at Mr. Wallen’s houfe, for fome days in the month of 
April, ranged from 57 0 to 67°. It may be remarked, that the 
higher the fprings the colder they are ; and, as far as a con- 
jecture can be formed from fo few obfervations, they would 
appear not to differ much from the mean temperature of their 
refpeCtive places *. 
It will not be out of place to add fome obfervations made in 
England, relative to the fame fubjeCt. The wells in and 
'* The thermometers made ufe of were all made by Mr. Ramspen, 
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