44 



J. F. Miller, Esq., on the Quayitity of Bain 



Such was the violence of the storm on the night of the 28th 

 December in the lake districts, that a number of fish were 

 found next day on the margin of Bassenthwaite Lake, which 

 had been thrown up by the waves in the course of the night 

 by the force of the wind, a circumstance wholly without a 

 parallel, except on the night of the memorable 6th of Janu- 

 ary 1839. The rain which fell in the preceding twenty-four 

 hours amounted to 4*22 inches ; at Whitehaven, the quantity 

 was 323, or about a quarter of an inch. 



Through the kindness of various gentlemen, I am enabled 

 to add returns of the rain-fall in 1845, from several places 

 throughout Great Britain, by way of comparison with the 

 quantities measured in the lake districts. 



Allenheads, Northumberland, 

 Kendal, \ 



T> .] ) Westmoreland, 

 Rampside, j 



Tirril, ' 



Bolton-le-Moor, 



Carlisle, .... 



"Westmoreland, Brougham 

 Hall, .... 



Manchester, 



Doncaster, 



Highfield House, Nottingham- 

 shire, 



Cirencester, 



The fall at Seathwaite is more than three times the quan- 

 tity measured at Whitehaven, one of the wettest towns in the 

 kingdom. It exceeds the fall at Leeds by six times ; at Cul- 

 loden by five and a-half times ; at Doncaster and Highfield 

 House, Nottinghamshire, by five times ; at Cirencester and 

 Arbroath by five-and-a-quarter times ; and at Makerstoun, 

 near Kelso, the seat of Sir Thomas Brisbane, Bart., by more 

 than seven times. Seathwaite exceeds Doncaster in Janu- 

 ary by fifteen times, in November by twenty-one times, and 

 in December by nine-and-a-half times. It exceeds the quan- 

 tity at York in January by 16 inches, or twenty times ; in 

 March by nine times, and in November by twenty times. It 



