A description, and explanation of the weather-glass. : It is a glass-cane, about fourty inch long, of a small wideness, hollow within, close at the top, and open at the lower end. It is filled completely with quick-silver. ...
Sinclair, George,-1696.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1680?]
At end of text: "By G. S.", identified as George Sinclair in Crawford, English broadsides.
Author describes instrument's reading as "it was upon Saturday afternoon, March 6, 1680".
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Engl. broadsides,
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
Barometer
Great Britain Scotland Edinburgh.