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« nine Yards perpendicularly, 4uad -then yvas beat into a *W;in~
“ doiw near , my Chamber, under ‘Which ccwwed«Dt-V(effe'l$.were
« placed ito jssetae what fell into die Wunmd, whickd meafored
“ byaGylindrieal Glafs, at a .certain pack, containing > juft a
-pound, or twelve Ounces Twy, and ted raarfcs for fgiallLparts
■frftlfccjj, peered; 1^ 5 :W ofteding tkei^onfenteofroy^eiel,
“ for meafuring the Water, before any other, ofgagingofdlnall
“ Cubical or Cylkdric;al ones, where an ioeonfideraMe aud ah
£ jgoft indifernible®?i©r, in tbedimenfiom* will prwemueh
‘6^re§ter k^feecoj^nt^ whereas imtheother waty,f*avidgd4j|*e
“ Cylinder it felf be fmall, or like a very fmall Neefcat the majrk-
tl ed place for a pound, one may eafily come to as great exadfnefs
“ as may be wifhed,by the help of .this Cylindrical Glafs, 1 tlius
“ kept my account of what Rain fell, and generally , twice or
‘f thrice a Day, when I took leveral qt.her Dbfervatinns, bot^ nf
^ ^ Ther^q^eter, Barqpieter, Winds,,what Raia I fouiid
“ jp,the Rq£giyea%-if qc^ mqre tji%g jjjadewtet was deft in; the
‘5 Cylindrical (G^fs, a fqjd pound I again left in it, but i f there
*f wgs naore tten thtf quantity, I fified if jpfttQtthp pound mark,1
‘fyyfeich I threw away 5 ?#d djd thp like with the remakki^
-31 flfWkP \t WO^’dalJoWj $Sl keeping an account5of
p°W?d§ thrown «away, i*nd noting alfq the • pants ofapouhd
“ regaining in tlje Glafg, by the help of which latter, aqd the
4' parts remaining at ypy tipie before, by numbering «he
“ Pounds, and Subftfa&iqg the Parts at the end, fbrExam-
1 pie, pf pne Month, frpm the Pounds thrown away, and the
“ Parts repiainkg •> 3£the end of another ; Ifind the quantity) of
“ Rain fallen bptwixt tjyefe two times, and that foas to affureme
“ that I erred pp more in the quantity of Rain of another Year,
“ thap by /qiftake in the differences of the parts of a Pound,
4 in thefirft, and Ojiibryatipn, whereas ftipu’d I hill Write
‘idpwn the R-aip that |§]$ between two Qbfervations, I might be
“ fubje£fc to make as great % mjftake, in every one of them, and
“ jCppfe^uenjdy he rnRch tporeiipcertain pf the quantity pf Rain
“ fallen, ip many pf thpfe added together; Refides, this Addiction
is Ipnggr in pgrfprjnjpg, and giving the quantity fought,
“ than
l a me a $ H im r f cm m s i im e , U&
2
tten the »method I make nftibf, Ife^e iadcitthffe lpartradars
tolhpw •you how- toMch
Jj therefore I hope foine of Jyour ingenious1 friends !in^y -be^er-
“ luaded to undertake, arid then by continuing my» owri^ObTe^va-
“ tions, I maybe farehOr‘faMsfyyithah(hitbe^oIhavebeib Willi
w them^for: Ibave yetlsearriM SsrtOrt he!mairi'p6mtp^ttet heto’we
“ havealmoft juft t-toi0 e#he quantityOf1 Rohr that faHs at ‘tens*
M This County , '#nd particularly ftet^att -of it lwMO I 11^
4 being generally ea rn ed to hcWe^nueh h ^ e sRdfehten^er
u Tarts, and in a greater Proportion thundtHOUgttttoafeteBle to
^te^llow’d,however k'hfe-y^t-by What I
Ac-be unjuft -Witooat‘Srther ‘©bfOrvaticSis W %e lik#bfaf^h In
■“ ‘Other Parts, that fee eftpeked to dbSurid as
“ much in Rafe'is'thele'parfs do,^^ ■wlfeto ’t^ T^fdh{of ^erv
*e high Grounds »in Ttrkfiir^ and^he ^HiMn
xtffhe‘Giouds: driven hMhef^^hefhrithaM.S.W.tHelgildral
Windsin thisqMrt#the/Wdrldfire brtifefu
<l and fkllupon us^ than fudhas comeby -ah’^Erm»!
f which broken % the llfllsx^re ^n^allfy Iprat ftere-, and
“ little affe6t ur> fend^hisis fhe reafon that Ldma0fe tes Oft^i
■f cohfiderably mpre (Rain than iforkfhbre.
I “ The above mention’d method of nfg 3p#d«riirids^
4t to thofe of my Fifniiy, *' af «hetftopoi*-
i( tions of the falling Rains, and the Wetness of tte&flktem'Sdi*-
^ tons, though they knew not how high it Wpu’d raift the Wa’i
w ter m a Cylinder Equil, at the bottom to toy Ttoii^fel > but to
“ inform others of thip With little trouble, to the ^ b le Jteve^ril
“ you the Pounds and Parts are doubled^ and tfeefe 1 have father
“ fent you tliati thofe iof the whole Ppundst Itpee the fame gives
“ both the quantity Jof half Pounds, and d*e; height inuicte^ ic~
w cording to the general Way of ehima ting the quantity ofR-ainyjhty
“ with this didereilce,that for thehalf Pounds only the laftFi^Ure,
^ is a decimalFraftion^nd the Other the numbfer of die halfPoundf
“ and for the height,tte t too laft Figures denote the Decimal Fra-'
ftion of an inch , and the retnaiikfef of thb teight M inofifes^
4 fo near the truth j that they only fall fliOrt of it tee inch in
“ aoo; .