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Page 99. — I. quatorze degrés Reaumur; i.e., 14*" below the zero point on the Reaumur thermometer, or one half a degree above zero, Fahrenheit. On the Reaumur thermometer, zero marks the freezing point and 80** the boiling point of water. One degree Reaumur is equivalent to two and one fourth degrees Fahrenheit. Reaumur, a French scientist, inventor of this thermometer, lived from 1683 to 1757.

Page 100* — I. la Neva, the river on which Saint Petersburg is situated.