PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
X. Observations upon the Marine Barometer , made during the 
Exammation of the Coasts of Neiv Holland and New South 
Wales , in the Tears 1801, 1802, and 1803. By Matthew 
Flinders, Esq. Commander of his Majesty’s Ship Investigator. 
In a Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B . 
P. R. S. &c. &c . &c. 
Read March 27, 1806. 
Isle of France, Aug. 19, 1805. 
A fore-knowledge of the wind and weather is an object so 
very interesting to all classes of men, and the changes in the 
mercurial barometer affording the means which appear most 
conducive to it, a system that should with certainty explain 
the connection between the variations of the mercury and 
those in the atmosphere under all circumstances, becomes 
greatly desirable ; to seamen, more especially, whose safety 
and success depend so much upon being duly prepared for 
changes of wind, and the approaching storm, it would be an 
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