barometrical

• “However, during the first week of April, after a sudden barometrical fall, a renewed rise was marked by a heavy gale of wind, lasting five or six days; then the needle of the instrument remained stationary at a height of twenty-nine inches and nine-tenths, and the weather appeared propitious for an excursion.”

  The Mysterious Island

• “The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked ‘No. 2, light breeze.’”

  Dracula

• “The barometrical observations, which had been regularly taken from Sydney to this place, did not give us an elevation of more than six hundred feet above the level of the sea;”

  Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales

• “Took some barometrical observations, and at half-past six continued our upward way.”

  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

• “New World, taken from barometrical observations, with all the requisite allowances and calculations carefully made.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.

• “At Potosí the boiling-point is still lower, being 188°, and the barometrical column stands at 18°.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860

• “Abby of the Signal Service, Mr. Holden took frequent barometrical and hygrometrical observations in his later excursions.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science

• “At this I opened my eyes inadvertently -- nobody could help it -- and saw the barometrical change in poppa's countenance.”

  A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')

• “True to its barometrical functions, my throat was predicting a storm.”

  Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers

• “We found the mountain to be 4860 feet above the sea, barometrical admeasurement, and the flagstaff itself in latitude”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860

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