Abstract

Sir, Being curious to learn by Observation, how far the Mercury will descend int the Tube at any given Elevation, for which there is sufficient Opportunity hereabouts, I proposed to take the Altitude of some of our highest Hills; but, when we attempted it, we found our Observations so disturbed by Refractions, that we cou'd come to no Certainty.

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