1796. | 
to the Profeffors of. Chriftianity, pub- 
lifhed in 1792, fays (p. 28), ‘¢ The ra- 
tional Diffenters, fancying they would be 
difgraced by the want of a learned mini- 
firy, are dwindling away almoft every 
-where.’ And Dr. Rees, in his funeral 
fermon for Dr. Kippis, fays, “¢ He (that is 
Dr. Kippis) often lamented the decline of 
our religious focieties in general, and of 
his own congregation in particular.” 
Now, Mr. Editor, it appears to me, 
that Dr. Prieftley, Dr. Kippis, and Dr. 
Rees, were as well acquainted with the 
fiate of Socinian congregations, as any 
gentleman in the kingdom. I am, there- 
fore, inclined to think, for the prefent, 
that the claufe in the Magazine; to which 
IT have referred, efcaped trom the writer 
of that entertaining and interefting arti- 
cle, in a paroxy{m of zeal to ferve a par- 
tucular party. If I am miftaken, I hepe 
that gentleman will forgive me, and rece 
tify my judgment on this fubject. 
Wareham, March 15. BiG: 
ET rene 
Far the Monthly Magazine. 
MDpTEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
MR. EDITOR, 
ay petufing the fourth volume of that 
valuable work, the Memozrs ofthe P.1i- 
lofophical Society of Mancnefter, I was 
fo much pleated with the following meteo- 
rological ob{ervations, tha: I have, been 
induced to make fuch a telection and 
abridgment of them, as I hope will fuir 
your excellent Repofitory.-The few 
obfervations of my own, which I have 
accafionally interfperfed, may not, per- 
haps, rerder the communication lefs ac- 
ceptable to the bulk of your readers. 
The mean height of the barometer 
at Liverpool, deduced from an average 
af twenty-five years, from 1768 to 1792, 
inclufive, is 29,74 inches; the greateft 
height, during that period, 30,953 the 
leait 28,06; the greateft range 2,39, and 
the annual average range 4,96, The 
mean height, during the months of May, 
June, July, and Auguf, was allo greater 
than in any other four months, which 
cannot be imputed to the difference of the 
expanfion in mercury, as this never ex- 
Geeds ,03 of an inch. 
The mean height of the barometer at 
Dover, on an average of five years, from 
41789 to 1793, inclufive, is 29,9 inches; 
the greateft height 30,95, the leaf 23,48; 
the greateft range 2,47, and the mean 
annual range 1,8. 
At Middlewich,, lat. 53°. 22’. the 
Meteorological Obfervations. . 
leaft 28,; 
123 
greateft height of the barometer, from’ 
1768 to 1772, inclufive, was 31,3; the 
the greateft range 3, the 
mean annual range 1,94. 
- Mean annual height of the barometer, 
at Kendal, in the years 1792, 1793, 1794, : 
WAS ,29,759—29,8 I—295793- 
At Dumfries, the annual mean, for 
fix years preceding 1793, Was 29,70109.° 
The mean tor 2793) WaS 29,7518 3- 
greateft height 30,45, leaft 28,57; range 
1,38. 
At Kefwick, the greateft height, in 
$793, was 30,28, the leaft 28,33; mean 
29,55; greateit range 1,95, mean month- 
ly range 1,11. 
Mean annual height at York, from: 
an average cf four years, ending 1774, 
Is 29,7; greateft height, in 1774, was 
30,75, leaft 25,65 greateft range 2,15, 
mean range 1,21. 
An improvement has been made, by 
Captain Burton, ct Ripon, by which the 
motions of the index of the barometer 
can be determined to the 2ooth part of an 
inch. 
From obfervation on the thermometer, 
during twenty-five years, from 1768 to 
1792, inclufive, it appears, that the 
mean heat at twelve o'clock, correfpond- 
ed to 53° of Fahrenheit’s; greateft heat 
to 86°, least to 22°; greateft range to 
64°, mean annual range to 46°. Mean 
heat of the {pring to 43°, of dummer to 
62°, of autumn to 60°. of winter to 
44; January being confidered, as the 
daft of the winter months. 
At Dover, the mean heat was calcu- 
lated, from obfervations, during five 
years, from 17$9 to 1793, parts of thofe 
years only inclufive, to correipond to 53°,. 
greateft heat to 869, the, leaft to416°), 
greateft range to 79°, mean annual range 
to 51°, mean heat of the fpring to 38°, 
of faummer to 52°, of autumn to 52°, 
Of winter to 36°. The: obfervations 
were made at eight o’clock in the morn- 
ing, and four and ten alter noon. At 
Liverpgcl, they were made at noon, on 
a thermometer forty feet above high 
water mark, In an open cbiervatory 
at the top ef the houle: the fitnation of 
that at Dover is not mentioned, -and fo: 
much depends on ftuation, *that no jut 
calculations can be formed, unlefs that is 
accurately deicribed. 
At Middlewich, trom five years’ obfer- 
vations, from 1768 ta 1772 inclufive, 
the greateit heat corretponded to 782, the 
leaft to 21°; greateft range to 57°, mean 
annual range to 49°; the thermometer : 
‘ 3, : WaR. 
