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do this to a very great degree, I apprehend none of

thole objeStions will takc place aga int? us, with which
Mr. Edna has fo fenfibly confuted the former received
theories on this fubjeil.
If we are Aced, how clouds come to be fupported
in the abfence of the fun ? it mull be remembered,
that large milli" of vapour mult for a confiderable
time retain much of the heat they have acquired ia
the day ; at the fame time relict-ling, how Mull a
quantity of heat was neceffary to mile them ; and
that doubtlefs even a Ids will be fufficient to (import
them, as from the dirninilhed preffure of the anno.
fphere at a given height, a left power may be able to
continue them in their forefeet flue of rarefattion ;
and, lofty, that clouds of particular fhapes will be
fullained or elevated by the motion they acqune tiom
winds.
I lbould here have concluded this paper, perhafs
already too long ; but upon reviling it, I find, where
the affinity of fame bother with heat is mentionoi,
that the deduaions made from thence we not fulfi-
ciently explained to be intelligible. FUR then, If
the power of mpanfion of any two bodies, by heat,
be in a greater mopes-don dun their fperific gravities,
then will there be a certain degree of hest, in which
their fpecific gravities will bc equals and ...thee, in
which the gravity of that, which was lighter when
cold, will exceed the gravity of that, which was
heavier when cold. Hence rXic and bifmuth alter
their fpecific gravities in fufion ; forne urine, and
many folutions of folids, grow turbid as they cool ;
others alter their colours. Secondly, If (the power
of expanfion by heat being equal) the poww of re-
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