COUNCIL FOR 1856. 



11 



Inches. 



Mean annual fall, from 1831 to 1851, inclusive . . 24.423 



for 26 years 23.940 



for 1853, 4, 5 20. 05 



RAIN FALL, YORKSHIRE, 1856. 



In the foregoing table the rain-faU for the year 1856, is 

 exhibited in a series of places, from Scarbro', in the east, to 

 Settle, in the west ; ranging over geological districts from the 

 chalk to the mountain limestone, including the Wolds, the 

 oolitic hills, the upper red sandstone plain, the broad and 



