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 perpendicular Lines; let each of the first six Columns be half an Inch wide, and the three last equally share the remaining of the Side.

"Let each Column have the Title of what it is to contain, in the first at least, written at the Top of it: As, let the first Column towards the left hand, contain the Days of the Month, or Place of the Sun, and the remarkable Hours of each Day. The second, the Place, Latitude, Distance, Ages and Faces of the Moon. The third, the Quarters and Strength of Winds. The fourth, the Heat and Cold of the Season. The fifth, the Dryness and Moisture of it. The sixth, the Degrees of Pressure. The seventh, the Faces and Appearances of the Sky. The eighth, the Effects of the Weather upon other Bodies, Thunders, Lightnings, or any thing extraordinary. The ninth, general Deductions, Corollaries or Syllogisms, arising from the comparing the several Phaenomena together.

"That the Columns may be large enough to contain what they are designed for, it will be necessary, that the Particulars be expressed with some Characters, as brief and compendious as is possible. The two first by the Figures and Characters of the Signs commonly used in Almanacks. The Winds may be exprest by the Letters, by which they are exprest in small Sea-Cards; and the Degrees of Strength, by 1, 2, 3, 4, &c. according as they are marked in the Contrivance in the Weather-cock. The Degrees of Heat and Cold may be exprest by the Numbers appropriate to the Divisions of the Thermometer. The Dryness and Moisture, by the Divisions in the Rim of the Hydroscope. The Pressure by Figures, denoting the Height of the Rh