Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3: containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal SocietyRoyal Society (Great Britain)
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Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3: containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal Society
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Natural history; Science -- Early works to 1800; Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
28. Thin Clouds, through which the Sun shone very hot.
29. And 30. cloudy.
31. About 3. _a. m._ Two short Storms of Rain, the Day after clear and
hot.
Two Funerals, one the 17th drowned; the other 21. of a Fever.
_August, 1687._
To 5. clear, for the most part in the Mornings cloudy; but without
Fogs; sometimes very hot.
5. About 5. _a. m._ a Shower near an Hour long, about 7. another for ½
Hour, till 10. some small Rain; thence cloudy till 1. about 7. _p. m._
a few Drops.
6. Cloudy all Day, sometimes it drop'd a little.
7. about 2. _a. m._ violent Rain, with Wind for above ½ Hour. The Day
after cloudy.
8. And 9. cloudy and foggy.
10. More foggy than ordinary; about 10. _a. m._ a great Mist, or small
Rain for most part of the Day after.
11. Foggy as the former and Misty; between 8. and 9. _a. m._ a Shower
of small Rain; after Noon clear.
12. Small Rain in the Morning; after as 11.
13. Clear and hot, the Land Breze very strong.
14. Cloudy all Day, the Land Breze turn'd to a kind of Hermitan, but
not troublesome, nor continued beyond this Day.
15. Cloudy, several times very misty, and some small Rain.
16. Cloudy, but no Mist; after Noon clear.
Thence to 22. clear and hot, but the Nights colder than at other times.
22. At 6. _p. m._ cloudy, a Wind Tornada but moderate, with some few
Drops of Rain very large.
23. Clear and hot.
24. Cloudy and misty at first; about 10. _a. m._ clear and hot.
25. Clear and hot.
26. Very foggy, Morning and Evening; for the rest hot.
27. From 5. to 10. _a. m._ it rain'd smartly; thence cloudy, about 2.
_p. m._ it clear'd up for a while; about 9. _p. m._ a sharp Rain for ½
Hour.
28. Between 12. and 3. _a. m._ it rained about Two Hours; about 7. some
few Drops, after Cloudy, in the middle of the Day, it clear'd a little,
but quickly overcast again.
29. In the Night some Rain; at 7. _a. m._ Rain for ½ Hour; till past
12. a very thick Mist; about 3. _p. m._ clear; at Night a very thick
Mist.
To the end cloudy and Misty.
Three Funerals, 6. one of a Fever, 7. another of a Consumption, 29. a
third of a Fever.
_September, 1687._
1. And 2. as the last.
3. Some few Drops.
Thence to 8. cloudy also and misty.
8. About 6. _p. m._ some small Rain; between 8. and 10. _p. m._ for an
Hour pretty brisk Rain.
9. In the Morning cloudy and misty.
10. About 10. _p. m._ a little Rain.
11. Extream hot and clear; in the Night, considerable Rain for several
Hours.
12. About 10. _a. m._ some small Rain, the Morning very foggy,
Afternoon clear.
13. Clear and hot.
14. And 15. In the Morning extream cloudy, and some Drops of Rain.
16. Clear and extream Hot.
17. Moderate, about 7. _p. m._ some Drops; at Night also some Rain, not
considerable.
18. Cloudy; in the Morning about 12. some Drops; all this Week, Morning
and Evening Foggy and thick.
19, 20, 21. Extream hot, the Fogs ceased.
22. About 1. _a. m._ some Rain, the Day after cloudy.
23, 24, 25. In the Morning cloudy after very hot.
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