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setting out the next morning, the former had got
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fall, and in fact we found it lower at every place in
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down to 109, and the latter to 12.
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out way, where we had before observed it in fine
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80. In the two last mentioned observations the hy-
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weather. The sky, notwithstanding, wu still clear,  
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grometer had been exposed long enough to the open
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and continued to the next day, when we began to
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air, to conform itself to the degree of humor preva-
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ascend the mountain, about two o'clock in the after-
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lent in the place; but we had not time fo rthe ob-
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noon, in order to pass the night in the highest cot-
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servations I was most delirioustomakewith accu-
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tages, that we might have more time to gain the sum-
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racy. The hygrometer being usually shut up in the
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mit the next day.
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box of my barometer, it would have been necessary
 
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to have left that open fomc time, in order that it
 
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should adapt itfdf to the state of the air, and we
 
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could allow but a very short time for these obser-
 
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vations.
 
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81. The first of them was made at nine in the
 
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morning, at the height of about t ooo toises above
 
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the plain. T he sky appeared clear over head, but
 
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the plain was darkened with vapours. T he ther-
 
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mometer in the fun stood at IJf, and the hygrome-
 
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ter rose to 115 in the shade.
 
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82. It was two in the afternoon when we reached
 
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the top of the mountain, which is always covered
 
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with an enormous mass of ice and fnow. We found
 
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there a very strong fouth wind, which is the warmest
 
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wind in our plains : besides this, we were nearly at
 
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the hottest time of the day: and yet the thermometer,
 
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upon being exposed to the sun, shewed only 6. The
 
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wind, and the coldness of this region, obliged us to
 
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quit the fummit in a quarter of an hour, during
 
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which the hygrometer had risen only to 119 ; but
 
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we judged that it was not yet stationary.
 
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83. In this short time we experienced a new effect
 
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of the diminished humidity of the air, which sur-
 
  
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prized all three very much. We found our skin
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79. Before we left Sixt (an abbey at the foot of
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the mountain), I exposed the hygrometer in open
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withered
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air, and in the shade it stood at 94. The thermo-
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meter at the same time was at 19 in the shade, and
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at 24 in the fun. At five o'clock we reached a
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place above 300 toises above the abbey; commanded
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on all sides by mountains, and on that account called
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Les Fonds (or The Bottoms). Here we observed
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the thermometer and hygrometer. The former,
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when exposed to the fun, stood at 15 1/4, and the latter
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rose to 96 in the shade We observed them again
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in the same manner about half an hour after six, in
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a place that was pretty open, and higher by 160
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toises than the former The thermometer stood at
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15, and the hygrometer at to6. lt wanted but a
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quarter of nine:, when we came to the cottages
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where we were to pass the night; though they were
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not above 30 toises higher than the place we stopped
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at last. The higher we went, the clearer the sky
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appeared; in so much that, notwithstanding the
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usual augmentation of humor in the air after sun-
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set, when the sky is not clouded, upon exposing the
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instrument to the air, about 1/4 after ten at night, we
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found the hygrometer at 123, and the thermometer
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at 13 1/4 They both fell in the night, and on our  
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setting

Revision as of 14:46, 3 December 2017

[ 38 ] fall, and in fact we found it lower at every place in out way, where we had before observed it in fine weather. The sky, notwithstanding, wu still clear, and continued to the next day, when we began to ascend the mountain, about two o'clock in the after- noon, in order to pass the night in the highest cot- tages, that we might have more time to gain the sum- mit the next day.

79. Before we left Sixt (an abbey at the foot of the mountain), I exposed the hygrometer in open air, and in the shade it stood at 94. The thermo- meter at the same time was at 19 in the shade, and at 24 in the fun. At five o'clock we reached a place above 300 toises above the abbey; commanded on all sides by mountains, and on that account called Les Fonds (or The Bottoms). Here we observed the thermometer and hygrometer. The former, when exposed to the fun, stood at 15 1/4, and the latter rose to 96 in the shade We observed them again in the same manner about half an hour after six, in a place that was pretty open, and higher by 160 toises than the former The thermometer stood at 15, and the hygrometer at to6. lt wanted but a quarter of nine:, when we came to the cottages where we were to pass the night; though they were not above 30 toises higher than the place we stopped at last. The higher we went, the clearer the sky appeared; in so much that, notwithstanding the usual augmentation of humor in the air after sun- set, when the sky is not clouded, upon exposing the instrument to the air, about 1/4 after ten at night, we found the hygrometer at 123, and the thermometer at 13 1/4 They both fell in the night, and on our setting

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