ror.}] . Onthe Will of a Few— Meteorological Fournal. a 25 
many troubles under Bethlem Gabor, or 
Gabriel Bethlem, as we would call him, 
we find the hero of the piece in a ‘* fub- 
terranean,” with a proyihon of phofphorus 
with him @ hundred years before that fub- 
Stance was difcovered by Kunckel ! 
Newcajile, Yours, very truly, 
Dec. 28, 1800. 
MunNNoo. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N perufing the will of aJew lately de- 
ceafed, 1 met with a bequeft which 
appeared rather fingular. After a few 
' trifling legacies to his friends, he leaves the 
refidue of his property 10 be fent to the Ho- 
ly Land, Ferufalem. 1 fhall be obliged if 
any of your correfpondents can inform me 
whether this is a common practice among 
pious Jews; and if fo, what is the object 
of it, and how the money is difpofed of. 
Dec. 3, 1800. Yours, &c. 
aT Be OG Tam el 
EE 
Io the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HERE fend you a continuation of the 
Meteorological Journal for Leighton, 
being the monthly averages and totals for 
the laft fix months, ending the 31ft of De- 
cember, 1800.—See Monthly Magazine 
for September, 1800. 
Therm. 
1800 Barom. |<sitnoue ) witnin | Rain GRE ONC EN GAN RO 
eee eta em | | : 3 
; Inch. | Deg. | Deg. | Inch. { Inch. ae 
July - 29.844 | 63.: | 64.8 | o.159] 5-365, 46.] 6.] 28. | 44. 25 
Augukt - 29-705 | 62.6 | 64.1 | 2.613] 5-469) 47-1 18. | 25. | 34 | oa 
eG “oars - | 29.429 | 56:3 | 58.5 | 2.661] 3-029) 29. | 16.1] 50.433.) % 85 
jOctober - | 29.546 | 46.8 | 48.8 | 1.509 eg Bat 26? bigg. Tigi. | ae 
November - | 29.301 | 40.2 | 44.0 | 6.020] 3.196)-11. | 3. | 64.142.) 1 3 
(December - | 29-285 | 38.0 | 40.1 | 2.570 0.176 22.1 19. | 54- | 29. 4 ee 
Mean - 2OVGTS e525 3.4 Ve58el 2 919) 26) Tr 47 4hg9 | 
Total) 15.532117-516155 | 68 |280 |233 | 
the year |27+567| 29-996 346 1219 |517 1378 
‘meme 29.479 | 47-6 | 49.1 | 2-297 20499 29 | 18 | 43 | 32 
| 
By comparing the approximation of the 
wind to the fouth for the whole year, and 
the quantity of rain, they will be found 
nearly proportionate to each other, which 
analogy will not be found with any of the 
other quarters of the compafs. A fimilar 
comparifon may be made between the degree 
of heat and the quantity of evaporation. 
The barometer was nearly at the mean 
height of the whole year in March and 
Sepiember, being fix months afunder. 
‘There was the fame diffcrence of time be-_ 
tween the thermometer being at the mean 
for the year ; only thefe were one month 
later than the former. ; 
The curve of evaporation and degree of 
heat bear a ftriking refemblance. The 
uantity of rain is confiderably more than 
Pex nectetasaeity when we confider the 
drynefs of June and July. Tam neverthele{s 
Montruty Mac, No. 69. ~ 
——$—<$<—$—$—< 
well fatisfied with my rain-gauge—its fim- 
plicity I hope, when deferibed, will pro- 
mote its more general application. The 
principal part is only a ¢zz tunnel, painted 
to fecure it from oxydation; the area of 
the top is ten inches, and the feétion of the 
conical part is an equilateral triangle, the 
tube nearly cylindrical, and about fix 
inches long, and two-tenths of an inch in 
diameter; this tunnel is pafled through 
the middle of a cork fitted to a commaz 
quart bottle, the weicht of which without 
the tunnel is known when empty; it is 
then placed in a deal box to defend it 
from the heat of the fon,Jeaving nothing but 
a very {mall part of the neck of the battle 
and the tunnel above the box; and once a 
week (or moath, if more convenient), L 
take out the cok, and weigh the bettle, 
and for every ayoirdupoife ounce of increale 
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