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    Barometer and Weather Guide
    Barometer and Weather Guide
    Barometer and Weather Guide
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    Barometer and Weather Guide

    By Robert FitzRoy

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Barometer and Weather Guide - Robert FitzRoy

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      Title: Barometer and Weather Guide

      Author: Robert Fitzroy

      Release Date: December 19, 2007 [EBook #23921]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BAROMETER AND WEATHER GUIDE ***

      Produced by Robin Monks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      book was produced from scanned images of public domain

      material from the Google Print project.)

      BAROMETER AND WEATHER

      GUIDE.

      BOARD OF TRADE.

      1859.

      COMPILED BY REAR-ADMIRAL FITZROY, F.R.S.

      THIRD EDITION.

      (WITH ADDITIONS.)

      LONDON:

      PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,

      PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

      FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

      AND SOLD BY

      J. D. POTTER, Agent for the Admiralty Charts, 31, POULTRY,

      AND 11, KING STREET, TOWER HILL.

      1859.

      Price One Shilling.

      Transcriber's Note

      Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Due to an omission in the original text, the anchor for footnote #4 has been placed in an assumed position.

      A brief table of contents, though not present in the original publication, has been provided below:

      PREFACE

      HOW TO FORETELL WEATHER

      MARINE BAROMETER ...

      A contraction of rules for foretelling weather—in accordance with the following pages—is submitted, for scales of common barometers.

      Add one tenth for each hundred feet above the Sea.

      LONG FORETOLD—LONG LAST,

      SHORT NOTICE—SOON PAST.

      FIRST RISE AFTER LOW,

      FORETELLS STRONGER BLOW.

      PREFACE.

      Many persons have advocated placing barometers at exposed fishing villages; and the Board of Trade has sanctioned the principle of some assistance by Government to a limited extent, depending on the necessity of each case, and other contingencies, such as the care, publicity, and setting of the barometers.

      It was thought advisable to substitute a few words on the scales of these instruments in place of those usually engraved (which are not the most suitable), and to compile brief and plain information respecting the use of weather-glasses.

      The following pages were prepared; but only the first few were intended particularly for this purpose.

      After writing these, it was suggested that some remarks might be added for the benefit of many persons, especially young officers at sea, and the suggestion was complied with; yet not so as to diminish the portability of this compilation, or increase its price.

      These remarks, derived from the combined observation, study, and personal experience of various individuals, are in accordance, generally, with the results obtained by eminent philosophers.

      The works of Humboldt, Herschel, Dové, Sabine, Reid, Redfield, Espy, and others, are appealed to in confirmation of this statement.

      To obviate any charge of undue haste, or an insufficiently considered plan—which may be fairly brought against many novelties—the following testimony to the first published suggestion of such a measure is submitted.

      In the First Report of the Committee on Shipwrecks (1843), at pages 1, 2, 3, the following evidence was printed by order of the House of Commons.

      "I think that the neglect of the use of the barometer has led to the loss of many ships. From a want of attention to the barometer, they have either closed the land (if at sea), or have put to sea (being in harbour in safety) at improper times; and in consequence of such want of precaution the ships have been lost, owing to bad weather coming on suddenly, which might have been avoided had proper attention been paid to that very simple instrument. While alluding to the use of barometers, I may remark, that if such weather-glasses were put in charge of the Coast-guard, at the principal stations round the coast, so placed as to allow any one passing by to look at them, they might be the means, not only of preventing ships from going to sea just before bad weather was coming on, but of preventing the great losses of life which take place every year on our coasts (particularly in the Orkney Islands and on the

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