Average annual Fall of Bain at Kendal. 345 



have a considerable atmospheric influence in those places 

 where they are manifestly conspicuous. 



The situation where the above observations were chiefly 

 made was a slight eminence, nearly surrounded by much 

 higher grounds, lat. 52° 8' n., and nearly on the meridian of 

 Greenwich ; and, as I am very much inclined to think that 

 the high grounds which surrounded the spot where my ob- 

 servations were made had considerable influence on the cur- 

 rents of wind as they descended into the valley, I shall feel 

 greatly obliged, if Mr. Gardener would favour me with an 

 account of the prevailing winds during his observations in 

 1833 and 1834 (p. 94 — 96.) : for I feel persuaded that, by con- 

 tinued and comparative observation, as frequent as it may be 

 expedient, much may still be done in illustration of the arcana 

 of nature, and many beneficial conclusions may be brought 

 to light, in illustration of those scientific researches, which 

 continually occupy the minds of intelligent enquirers ; not- 

 withstanding that we are told by Cowper, that 



" God never meant that man should scale the heavens, 

 By strides of human wisdom." 



Old Kent Road, Feb. 20. 1835. 



Art. VII. A Report on the Quantity of Rain ivhich has/alien at 

 Kendal, in Westmoreland, during the last Thirteen Years, and a 

 Notice of some Local Circumstances deemed Influential on the 

 Quantity, and on the Climate. By Samuel Marshall Esq., 

 and J. S. M. 



The annual average quantity of rain taken at Kendal, in 

 a rain-gauge kept by me, during the last thirteen years, is 

 56-918 in. These are some of the details: — In 1822, 

 62*726 in.; in 1823, 62*749 in.; in 1824, 62*762 in.; in 

 1825, 59-973 in.; in 1826, 43*06 in.; in 1827, 58*006 in.; 

 in 1828, 54*816 in.; in 1829, 46*173 in.; in 1830, 58*03 in.; 

 in 1831, 61'416in. ; in 1832, 49*688 in.; in 1833, 55*418 in.; 

 in 1834, 65*122 in. The monthly details for 1834 are, in 

 (first month) January, 14*758 in. ; in (second month) Feb., 

 5*723 in.; March, 5*171 in.; April, 1*043 in.; May, 1*637 in.; 

 June, 6*699 in. ; July, 5*048 in.; Aug., 6*167. in.; Sept., 

 4*908 in.; Oct., 4*715 in.; Nov., 4*206 in. ; Dec, 5*047in. 



The town of Kendal is situated in a valley bounded on the 

 east and west by two ranges of hills, the former running 

 parallel to the great chain called the Backbone of England, or 

 the English Apennines, beginning a little north of Cross Fell, 



