Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6788

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          <head xml:space="preserve"> May the 5. </head>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Hor. 11
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            . AM. In the verge of the lampe. W. a water drop.
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            Norths one. North NE. a lesse. NE. a lesse. SE. one.
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            Betweeen NW & SE. diverse small sprinkled drops besides.
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            The lower region clear, but for three or four little small
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            drops. The res in the same forme as before, But some
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            in quantity to be somewhat lessened.
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            I went to </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> May. 8. hor. 11. AM. At what time the drops that lay upon the
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            line
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            were fallen down to the line
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            & then rest upon the silver
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            [???] as it did the first night in Terra. The verge of the lake
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            which had drops as I sayd before was cleare, but that there is a little
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            small
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            the upper edge of the verge W to S & one other such NE.
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            The lower region & some of the lower parte of the second is </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> May. </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> June. 9. I never gave firs since the first time. I now espied
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            the [mercury] in diverse places about the suplphurs to be congealed.
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            The sulphurs are appearing above the superficies of the [mercury],
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            & all of them in notable appearance & evident; as it hath
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            long before.
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            The low region hath had a dew this 15 or 16 dayes past. & doth </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> June 11. I found a drop fall from
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            to the middle of the
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            lower </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> June 13. ho. 5
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            . PM. The mattter remayning
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            I sayd before with that drop.
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            but the [mercury] somewhat now congealed. 40
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            being past since the
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            imposition & all the timew wihout fire. I now gave fire first.
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            & continued it 10 hours & onserving proportion æqualitatis 5 times
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            till the extinguishing of the last fire ho. 11. AM. June 17.
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            In which time it grows clearer & clearer
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            & the sulphurs
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            in the end [???] & the [???] somewhat dry at the top.</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> June. 19. ho. 1. PM. I gave fire for 10 hours.
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 20. hor. 10.
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            I [???] the southwesterly a little [???]
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            above the [mercury]. but flattish. Then after 3 one eminent in
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            an other [???], capped & dry yet red. thus
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            The drops from the top of the silver dew over all.
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            [???] saving one.
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            To London at this </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 25. I returned. I found the coppers sunder away [???] no difference.
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            see one other </s>
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