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Gentleman's Magazine vol.25 p.56, 1755:-
Extract of a Letter from Wigton in Cumberland, dated Feb. 15.
THE thermometer here has varied only from 35 to 40, since the commencement of this month. We have here a severe frost, but no snow, though Scotland seems loaded. Our last year's bill of mortality decreased from 40 to 11, two were infants; the computed number of inhabitants is 5000, so that we have this year lost but 1 in 500.
We should be sorry to find any gentleman with draw his useful thermometrical observations, from an apprehension that they are disregarded; on the contrary they are highly acceptable, as from such observations only, we are likely to any precision in the theory of atmospheres.
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