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The thermometer within doors is placed clofe to the barometer, 
the heights of which it is intended chiefly to correct ; the 
windows of the room in which they are kept look to the wcfl- 
ward, and in winter the room has con flan tly a fire in it. 
The vefifel which receives the rain is fixed to a chimney at 
the top of the houfe, and rifes fix inches above t he chimney ; 
it is not fcreened from the rain by any building or cnimnies, 
there being none higher than that to which it is fixed. 
II N D GF FART I. OF VOL* LXXVIII. 
