 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...and thus continues for two or three days before the rain comes on, then expect a great deal of wet, and probably high winds. «" 7. The unsettled motion of the mercury denotes uncertain and changeable- weather. " But to these remarks may be added, that, when the barometer suddenly... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...and low, and thus continues for 2 or 3 days before the rain comes, then expect a great deal of wet, and probably high winds. 7. The unsettled motion of the mercury, denotes uncertain and changeable weather. . . t 8. You are not so strictly to ob* serve the words on the plate,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...before the bad weather is entirely over, then a continuance of fair weather may be expected. 6. lu fair weather, when the mercury falls much and low,...denotes unsettled weather. 8. The words engraved on Die scale are not so much to be attended to, as the rising and falling of the mercury ; for, if it... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1812 - 184 pages
...mercury falls much and low, and continues falling for two or three days before rain comes, much wet must be expected, and probably high winds. 7. The unsettled motion of the mercury indi. cates changeable weather. 8. Respecting the words engraved on the re. gister.plate of the barometer,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1815 - 680 pages
...than at the sides, it is a sign the mercury is then in a rising state ; but if the surface be.concave or hollow in the .middle, it is then sinking. 2. In...mercury denotes unsettled weather. 8. The words engraved cm the scale are not so much to be attended to as the rising and falling of the mercury : for if it... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1816 - 182 pages
...mercury falls much and low, and continues falling for two or three days before rain comes, much wet must be expected, and probably high winds. 7. The unsettled motion of the mercury indi. cates changeable weather. 71 the inercnry rising and falling. The words de. serve to be particularly... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 928 pages
...probably follow. 6. In fair weather, when the mercury falls for two or three days or more, then a good deal of wet may be expected, and probably high winds. 7- The unsettled motion of the mercury denotes uncertain and changeable weather. After all, in our observations, it is , not so much the real height... | |
 | Colin MacKenzie - 1821 - 724 pages
...low, and thus continues for two or three days before the rain comes, then expect a great deal of wet, and probably high winds. 7. The unsettled motion of the mercury denotes uncertain and changeable weather. 8. You are not so strictly to observe the words engraved on the plates... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...mercury falls much and low, and continues falling far two or three days before rain comes, much wet must be expected, and probably high winds. " 7. The unsettled motion of the mercury indicates changeable weather. " 8. Respecting the words engraved on the register-plate of the barometer,... | |
 | Colin Mackenzie - Chemistry - 1822 - 774 pages
...low, and thus continues for two or three days before the rain comes, then expect a great deal of wet, and probably high winds. 7. The unsettled motion of the mercury denotes uncertain and changeable weather. 8. You are not so strictly to observe the words engraved on the plates... | |
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... 6. In fair weather when the mercury falls much and low, and thus continues for two or three days before the rain comes, then a deal of wet may be expected, and probably high winds. 
