on the Marine Barometer. 241 
after a gale from WSW, the mercury had risen from 29,42 
to 29,84, and was nearly stationary for two days, the wind 
being then moderate at NW, with cloudy weather. On the 
22d, the wind shifted to SW, blew fresh, and heavy showers 
of rain occasionally fell ; but the mercury rose to 30,02, and 
remained at that height for thirty hours ; and on the weather 
clearing up, and the wind becoming moderate in the same 
quarter, it rose to 30,28. 
Fresh breezes from E and SE caused a rise in the baro- 
meter in King George's Sound, once to 30,20, and a second 
time to 30,18, although the weather at these times was hazy ; 
but with light winds from the same direction, which were 
probably local sea breezes only, the mercury stood about 
29,95 in that neighbourhood. 
2 d Example. Jan. 12, 1802, in D’Entrecasteaux's Archi- 
pelago, the mercury rose to 30, 23, previously to a fresh breeze 
setting in from the eastward. In the evening of the 13th it 
blew strong from ESE, with hazy weather, and a rapid fall 
of the mercury to 29,94 had then taken place ; but instead of 
the wind increasing, or bad weather coming on, the wind died 
away suddenly, and a light breeze came off the land at mid- 
night, with cloudy weather. 
At the Cape of Good Hope, which is nearly in the same 
latitude, the mercury rises with the fresh gales that blow there 
from the SE in the summer season. The weather that ac- 
companies these south-east winds, is nearly similar in both 
places ; the atmosphere being without clouds, but containing 
a whitish haze, and the air usually so dry as sensibly to affect 
the skin, particularly of the lips. 
&d. Jan. 22. Three degrees east of the Archipelago, the 
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