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NOTICE of all that can increaſe the progreſs of human knowledge?

Under the latitude of this query, I will preſume it not improper nor unacceptable to furniſh ſome data for eſtimating the climate of Virginia. Journals of obſervations on the quantity of rain, and degrees of heat, being lengthy, confuſed, and too minute to produce general and diſtinct ideas, I have taken five years' obſervations, to wit, from 1772 to 1777, made in Williamſburgh and its neighborhood, have reduced them to an average for every month in the year, and ſtated thoſe averages in the following table, adding an analytical view of the winds during the ſame period.