[27] Water boils at eighty degrees of this thermometer.
[28] Spirit of wine boils at 175.
[29] Transactions of Society for improving Medical Knowledge.
A pond’rous stone bold Hector heav’d to throw,
Pointed above, and rough and gross below;
Not two strong men th’ enormous weight could raise,
Such men as live in these degenerate days.
Iliad, B. xii.
[31] See [Sec. IV]. Preventives of the Plague.
[32] Herodotus says, that in his time the province of Babylonia produced commonly two hundred, and in plentiful years three hundred fold.
[33] Philos. Transact. vol. liv.
[34] See [Sec. i. p. 10].