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Excerpt from Journey Through Spain, Vol. 1 of 3: In the Years 1786 and 1787; With Particular Attention to the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Population, Taxes and Revenue of That Country, and Remarks in Passing Through a Part of France
Doétor Halley, in his experiments; to af certain the quantity evaporated. From the Mediterranean Sea, placing a ve?el of falte water, over burning coals, brought it to the temperament of the air in Our hottef'c fum mer; and at the' end of two hours, having found the evaporation and the proportion of the furfaces to each other, from thefe' he formed his calculation. He then attempted to difcover the quantity of water annually poured into the Mediterranean by all its rivers, making his calculation by the pro duce of the Thames; and finding this un equal to theevaporation, he concluded, that he had afiigned a fufiicient caufe for the confiant in?ux. H'o'w inaccurate the ri?
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