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Annual Depth of Rain at Kendal in Cumberland^ from 1829 to 

 1835 inclusive. By Mr Wakefield. (Communicated to 

 the Magazine of Popular Science, No. 1.) 



Mean depth of the Seven Years, 

 Total ditto, 



65.962 inches. 

 391.738 do. or 32 feet 7| in. 



On the Geology of Massa Carrara, By Professor Fkederic 

 Hoffmann. 



The marble mountains of Carrara are situated in the north- 

 western part of the Apuanian Alp, a mountain group, rendered 

 very remarkable by the boldness of the forms of its rocks, and 

 still more by its almost complete separation from the chain of the 

 Apennines. This group extends about thirteen miles from south- 

 east to north-west, and has an average breadth of about six miles. 

 Towards the sea its acclivities are not very steep ; and Pietra 

 Santa and Massa are situated at the edge of an alluvial plain 

 which stretches to the foot of the mountains, and is about' 2 J 

 miles in breadth. This situation points out also very nearly the 

 termination of the two narrow and deep penetrating lateral valleys 

 of Senavezza and Frigido, To the north-west, in a sort of 



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