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IX. ABSTRACT of a REGISTER^* /<? WEATHER, kept at 

 Branxbolmfor Ten Tears, ending December 31. 1783. 



[Communicated by the Duke ofBuccLEUGH t Pre/ident,.jFan. 3. 1785.] 



IN the regifter from which this abftracT: is taken, the num- 

 bers were marked every day at nine o'clock A. M. The 

 quantity of rain was meafured by means of a tin-cylinder, 

 guarded by a wooden box, and funk in the earth, into which 

 the rain was received through a funnel, whereof the area was 

 quadruple that of the cylinder. A gage, which floated on the 

 furface of the water in the cylinder, had a rod fixed to it, divided 

 into inches and tenths, which patted through the pipe of the 

 funnel. The fourth part of the rife of this index marked the 

 depth of rain which had fallen fince the laft obfervation, and 

 thefe obfervations wexe generally made once in twenty-four 

 hours. 



BRANXHOLM is fituated on the Tiviot, about'ten miles from its 

 fource, and near the ridge from which the country declines to- 

 ward the eail and weft feas. It is about forty-four miles S. W. 

 by W. of Berwick, and thirty-five N. . of the head of the 

 Solway frith. 



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