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85. The storm lasted a great part of the night, and it rained almost without intermission. Notwith- standing this, the hygrometer, when exposed to the air the next morning, stood at 105, and the thermo- meter at 10. As we were uncertain how long the rain would continue, we set out at eight in the morning on our way down The rain hardly ceased the whole morning, and was sometimes accompanied with hail; it still continued raining when we arrived at the abbey about noon, notwithstanding the hy- grometer stood there at 99, that is to say, five degrees higher than when we set but ; but the barometer, which had fallen the two preceding days, was now begining to rise; the thermometer was at 14.

86. We learnt at Sixt, that at the very time we were driven from the summit of the mountain by the disagreeable coldness of the air, they had felt an ex- cessive degree of heat, and likewise that the storm had been very violent in the night. This storm, as we found two days after at Geneva, had extended it- self all over the plain. We found likewise, from the observations that had been made there in our ab- sence that a thermometer exposed to the north, con≠ sequently but of the fun, had been at 23 1/2, at the very time that ours, at the top of the mountain and in the fun, had been only at 6. G 87. As