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The number of localities, the level of which he has determined barometrically, with the view of fixing the ancient levels of all these vanished glaciers, is almost incredible.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

It seems that the trades and counter-trades actually bank up, in their passage to the westward, against those mountains, and the true elevation of their eastern slopes can not be barometrically ascertained.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

The chancelleries published bulletins announcing the return of fair weather, barometrically as it were.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert

Colonel Reid gave them much attention, and studied them barometrically: that is, he studied the changes of the wind during the successive periodic depressions.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

Measured barometrically, the fall is sixteen feet perpendicular, but is said sometimes to be upward of twenty feet.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.