1809.] Aleteorological Abstract and Register for 1808. 
under hot embers, and roasted for an 
hour, but it was not thoroughly cooked. 
Tt weighed, whilst hot, 1028 grains, and 
after being placed in a cellar for twelve 
hours, it weighed 1010 grains, having lost 
in the whole, though not sufficiently 
cooked, 210 grains, being rather more 
than one-sixth, or not quite 20 per cent 
of its original weight. 
Huperiment 3.—A Captain-Hart po- 
tatoe, weighing 1198 grains, was covered 
with het embers, and roasted for an hour 
and a half, when it was found to be 
thoroughly cooked. Before it was quite 
cold, it weighed 818 grains, having lest 
by roasting 380 grains! Being then placed 
ina cellar for twelve hours, it imbibed 
four grains of moisture from the damp 
air of the cellar, weighing now 822 
grains. 
From this last experiment we learn, 
that when the potatoe is cooked by roast- 
ing, it looses nearly one third, or almost 
forty per cent of the original weight of 
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the root;—an enormous waste! which 
added to the thick hard dry indigestible 
surface of the roasted potatoe, that is 
generally left as refuse; the want of eco- 
nomy is so prodigious, that especialiy in 
these times, this mode of cooking that 
nutritious vegetable, ought not to be to= 
lerated, even at the tables of the opulent. 
Where is the poor man, whose family 
having gleaned one hundred measures of 
wheat, who would cast forty of them inte 
the river, and reserve sixty only for the 
supply of himself and family? 
Or what should we think of the rich 
man, who having purchased a hundred 
bushels of meal, were to order forty of 
them to be buried under a dunghill, lest 
they should afford nutriment to the needy 
around, him? Yet as great an absurdity 
as these, is the unmeaning wastefulness 
of roasting the invaluable root of the 
potatoe, Your’s, &c. 
Wisbech, W. SKRIMSHIRE, Jone 
Feb. 21, 1809. 
METEOROLOGICAL ABSTRACT and REGISTER, us kept at EDINBURGH, 1808. 
ABSTRACT for 1808. 
THERMOMETER, BAROMETER. of z Z 
Degrees of Inches and AONE eee ah a 
Fabhrenbeit. Sixteenths. as a3 5 S.E. |NeWt 
MONTHS. - — sous Bea Sado. z 
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30 = © a) S Ss Ve lam ia 
ic 5 = ce fi = as apd ociess iae ee DAYS. DAYS, DAYS.. 
January - 50 | 24 | 364/80.2 (26.5 29.5 | 1.8 | — } 13 ] 25 6}— 
February - | 50 | 26 | 364/30.8 |28.13/29.11) 1.12) 4 94191 8) 2 
March.  - | 48| 33 | 373/30.4 |29.4 20.4414 | 18} 4/13] 15) 3 
April = - | 52 | 32 | 42 (29.14/28.10/29.8 |°3.9 | 2.1 | 13 | 402} 48°] 4% 
May - - 62 | 473) 554/29.13 20°2 129.8 12.66" 3 16; 18 8 i) 
June - - 64 | 482] 58 (29.14/29.4 |29.9 | 2.4 | 3 Oy 14° 12 4, 
July =) = 1°70 | 58-| 64 (29.14129.5 129.10) 4° 4 9.10] 14°). 84H 1 ory 
August -«* = | 66 | 54 | 612/29.14/29. 129.7 | 45) 3.6 115) 17 1.9% 5 
September - | 61 | 45 | 554/29.15/29.. [29.8 | 2. | 2.8 | 10 | .15 | 128 22 
October = - 54 | 89 | 443/30. [23.4 CO ae oO nS La Loe LO ee Bt 
November - 54 | 33 | 414/30.1 (28.8 (29.7 | 1.2) 8 8 | 16 9 5 
December - | 52! 26 | 363/30.1 |28.8 (29.7 | 1.38 | 4 LQ dG Pat Sg 
nine! 47} neces 129.8 27.7 |20.7 |134 |1893/1374| 39 
aint ae | total | total \total |cotal {total jtotal 
WINDS. 
Register of Occurrences for 1808. 
January 1st to 10th, often clear, and in 
‘general soft, open weather, wind south- 
west, barometer rising. A gale of wind 
on the 10th was followed by three days 
of snow and sleet, and after another 
severe gale from the north on the 14th, 
we had three days of frost, with showers 
ef snow, wind shifting from north to 
west: 17th, to end of the month, wind 
continued westerly, but m other respects, 
weather proved very unsettled, alter- 
nately two or three days of frost and 
snow, followed by the same space of slcet 
and rain, barometer keeping low. 
February ist to 7th, frequent showers 
of rain, slect and snow; 7th to 14th, m- 
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