FOOTNOTES:
[2] Whenever the degree of heat occurs in this work, it is stated by the author according to Reaumur's scale. The degrees within brackets are the correspondent degrees of Fahrenheit's scale, added by the translator. E.
[3] Collections of the French Academy of Sciences for that year, p. 420.
[4] Chemical Nomenclature.
[5] As I shall afterwards give a definition, and explain the properties of the liquor called ether, I shall only premise here, that it is a very volatile inflammable liquor, having a considerably smaller specific gravity than water, or even spirit of wine.—A.
[6] It would have been more satisfactory if the Author had specified the degrees of the thermometer at which these heights of the mercury in the barometer are produced.
[7] Vide Memoirs of the French Academy, anno 1780, p. 335.—A.