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East Florida

Climate without requiring any Alteration either by adding or sub=
=tracting from it; the Author begs Leave for referring to the 3d Chapter
of South Carolina for Particulars.
8. In Order to collect if possible all natural Causes peculiar to the Effect
of each Climate in Conjunction with those of the Country under its Do=
=minion, he has with utmost Care observed and noted, the rising and
falling of the Quick Silver on the Termoscope not only in the shade but
also in the Sun, judging the latter Observation to be the most material,
since the Inhavitants, and their Cattle cannot always remain in the
Shade, and their Nourishment must be produced in the Fields exposed
to the Sun, he has also found the Sky being sometimes clear, then foggy
cloudy or hazy; the Winds in their Changes bringing at times Rain,
then Squalls, Thunder or Storms, all which however not always to the
same Effect, He therefore has endeavoured to aggregate, whatever would
present itself opposite to his Attention, he has continued these Observa=
=tions near 35 Months; vidt. from June 1767 to April 1770 as well in St
Augustin, than other Places, where his Duty did call, and his Surveys
would lead him, some of which he had an Opportunity to compare when
he was Possessor of two Termoscopes, and obtained Northern and Southern
Observations of the same date (a) during which time he never found the
Quick Silver to rise above 91 degrees in the Shade, and 121 degrees in
the Sun, and never observed it fell nearer to the Ball, then at a
Distance of 32 which is 23 degrees below tempered. He has also observed
that different Winds in Combination with the different degrees of Heat,
although they repeated their Power upon the Quick Silver on the
Termoscope, yet they had not always the same Effect upon the human
Body, nor cause the same Phenomena, as the following Table of
35 Months Observation will shew.

(a) The Author being in the North of the IIII Climate, and his Deputy and Peoples
in the South as far as 300 and more miles difference of Latitude asunder.
observing the Rise and Fall of the Quick Silver in the Termoscope.