SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

EDINBURGH

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

BEING

A GENERAL REPOSITORY

OF

LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS,

FOR 1804.

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

VOL. LXVI.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY,

By J. Ruthven & Sons.

1804.

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

Edinburgh Literary Miscellany,

FOR JANUARY, 1804.

With a VIEW of DUNDEE and an Engraving of Two ANCIENT COINS.

State of the BAROMETER, in inches and decimals, and of Farenheit's THERMOMETER in the open air, taken in the morning before fun-rife, and at noon; and the quantity of rain-water fallen, in inches and decimals, from Dec. 26. 1803, to Jan. 25. 1804, in the vicinity of Edinburgh.

1803. Barom. Thermom.

Weather.

Sa. 4.

8 9

7 46 833

Su.

5

8 57

M. 6.

Showers
Ditto

9 48

T.

W.

Clear

7. 10 42
8. 11 37

Rain

Showers

Rain

Clear

29.86

28 36

Ditto

29.85

35 37

Ditto

4

29.85

33 35 0.321

Snow

5

29.8

31 32

6

29.76

26

2236689

Clear

32 0.14

Snow

Cloudy

Clear

8 53

923

Cloudy

Ditto

21. 10 51 W. 22. 11 50

II 20

12 29.09

46

47 0.19

Rain

43 48 0.15

Ditto

Fr. 24.

I 3 I 26

34 29.4 15 29.22

41 48

0.051

Ditto

41

46

2 53

Ditto

17

29.26

Clear

42 46

Ditto

20

28.61

Rain

21

29.02 44 48

Clear

22

29.25 44 48

0.0[

46

0.02

Showers
Ditto
Rain

0.361

Ditto

MOON'S PHASES,

FOR FEB. 1804. Apparent time at Edinburgh

D. H. M.

Laft Qrtr. 3. 7 15 Even.
N. Moon, Ir. 10 56 Morn.
First Qrtr. 18. 5 9 Morn.
Full Moon, 25. 0 27 Noon.

Quantity of Rain 3.195

OBSERVATIONS.

Feb. 2. Candlemas.

11. Vifible Eclipfe of the Sun, (fee p. 31.)

24. Duke of Cambridge born.

27. Hare-hunting ends.

THE