ACCOUNT OF THE RAIN 



SiEllbicI) jFrll on Hiflcrfiit 9Iac<6 



OK TBB 



LINE OF THE ROCHDALE CANAL; 



Th4 Ruin Gages b^ng kept under th* mperiniendencs qf Mr. ROBERT 

 MITTHEIVS, Enokucr for tfu Canal: 



COMMUNICATED BY THOMAS FLEMING, ESQ. 



One of thf Committee of the Canal. 



(Rsad Januarjf n, 1830 J 



XT may be proper to give some account of tlie 

 situation of the gages. — Blackstone-Edge gage is 

 kept at the reservoir of the canal, near the 

 summit of the mountain, separating Lancashire 

 from Yorkshire ; around it is an extensive area 

 of moderate elevation, which supplies the waters 

 of the reservoir. The gage is 1600 feet above 

 the sea, and is probably the highest of any 

 that has been kept in Great Britain, at least for 

 any regular series of years. The mountain 

 range is from the S. E. to the N. W.; and is 

 consequently flanked on the Lancashire $ide, 

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