i02 Mr. Read’s Meteorological Journal 
Days-. 
Wind. 
B.irom. 
rher. 
Sparks. 
PC, 
Neg. 
Inches. 
0 
Nov. 7 
w 
28.90 
43 
fmall 
neg. 
A.M. by a flioiver of fleet, which fora 
fliort time occafioned the rod to emit 
bright fparks at the ball L. 
8 
9 
NW 
w 
29. 9 
29.29 
40 
3 ° 
O 
0 
— 
neg. 
neg. 
| A.M. by the night bottle. 
20 
w 
29 90 
37 
fmall 
pof. 
A.M. by means of a fog. 
I i 
w 
29-93 
39 
fmall 
— 
neg. 
A.M. 
12 
SW 
29.70 
45 
0 
pof. 
— 
P.M. This was obtained in the following 
manner. Soon after funfet I per- 
ceived a light-coloured dewy vapour 
arife 20 or 30 inches above the ground 
in the park ; the evening being ferene 
and fair, I flood upon an infulated 
ftool, and waved my exploring rod 
among the dew *, and with my finger 
touched a fenfible electrometer, which 
inflantly opened with pofitive electri- 
city. As the evening advanced, a 
flrong fog filled the air; when it was 
of fufficient height for the high or fixed 
rod, this alfo became eleCtrificd v ith 
the fame kind of eleCtricity which I had 
received near the earth’s lurface. 
13 
34 
w 
sw 
29.73 
29.63 
40 
46 
0 
0 
— — 
| Weak figns only ; balls not open. 
J 5 
sw 
29.42 
47 
0 
— 
— 
Notwithflanding all my care and atten- 
tion to my pointed rod, this day it 
has been intirely frufirated ; for I have 
* ' 
, 
not perceived any figns of the eleCtric 
fluid. However, it is the firA day it 
i 
i- — 
has wholly failed me. A moifi air 
* When I find that the moiflure in the air has fo far injured the inhalation of 
my high-pointed rod, that it will not retain the eleCtric fluid ; in that cafe, I 
make ufe of a fmall rod which I hold in my hand, and project through an upper 
vyindow ; having firft warmed the fiooi legs, I place myfelf upon it, &c. I find 
this method to be a good fubflitute in damp weather. The rod is about the 
kngth and flrength of a fifliing-rod, with plenty of fmall wire twined round it. 
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Na.vv 
