232 Miscelldneoiis Intelligence, 



less than the temperature of the water drawn from the mines.— 

 Trans. Geolog, Society, Cornwall. 



4. Extraordinary Instances of Fall of Rain. — May 20, 1827, six 

 inches of rain fell at Geneva in the short space of three hours. 



From September 23 to 27, 1827, there fell at Montpellier, fifteen 

 inches eight lines of rain. In forty-ei^^ht hours, from the 24th to 

 the 26th of that month, eleven inches ten Hues of rain fell at M. 

 Berard's manufactory, near Montpellier. 



The fall of rain at Joyeuse (department de I'Ardeche) was, ac- 

 cording- to the registers ofM. Tardy de la Brossy, most extraordi- 

 nary. The maximum of rain collected in any one day, for twenty- 

 three years, Avas on the 9ih of August, 1807, as much as uine 

 inches three lines. But on the 9th of October, 1827, there fell 

 twenty-nine inches three lines of rain, in the space of twenty-two 

 hours. Eleven days of that month, according to the same registers, 

 gave thirty-six inches of water, or about double the quantity which 

 tell at Paris during the whole year. 



During the dreadful fall of rain on the 9th, the barometer was 

 nearly stationary, and only two or three lines beneath its mean 

 height. Claps of thunder succeeded each other without intermis- 

 sion. — Annates de Chimie, xxxvi. 414. 



5. Rain at Bombay. — In a letter from Mr. Scott, jun. of Bom- 

 bay, he says that, during the first twelve days of the rainy season, 

 thirty-two inches of rain fell, and that then all the roads became 

 like rivers. In England, the average fall for the whole year is thirty - 

 .two inches. — Jaineso7i*s Journal. 



The average fall at Bombay is not given. 



' 6. Meteorological Prognostication observed in the Shetland Isles. — 

 Mr. Scott, professor at the Sandhurst college, states that he has wit- 

 nessed the following effect. It has been the custom to place drink- 

 ing glasses in an inverted position upon a shelf in a cupboard on the 

 ground floor of Belmont House. These glasses frequently pro- 

 duce spontaneous sounds similar to those which could be occasioned 

 either by tapping them lightly with a penknife, or by raising them 

 a little, and letting them fall upon the shelf. These sounds always 

 indicated wind, and whenever they occurred, the boats and vessels 

 were immediately placed in security. No indication was given of 

 the quarter from which, the wind would come, but the strength of 

 the sound was always proportionate to that of the tempest. The 

 latter came sooner or later, but generally several hours after the 

 sounds. 



Mr. Scott states, that tliere was. no sensible motion either in the 

 glasses, or their support, at the time when the sound was strongest* 

 and he thinks that the cause of the phenomenon may be electri- 

 city. — Annates de Chimie, xxxvi. 416. ._ . 



