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REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURE OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 



ological observations, which were confined for that year to 

 middle and upper Annandale. His observers were the school- 

 masters of the district ; and Mr Stewart having provided them 

 with the necessary instruments, they entered most heartily into 

 the project. The success of the scheme was so marked and 

 satisfactory, and the information which it elicited so interesting 

 and useful, that the Duke of Buccleuch purchased additional 

 instruments, to enable the observations to be extended to middle 

 and upper Nithsdale, and also to Eskdale. This was done in 

 1855, and the results were published in due course. We sub- 

 join an abstract of the report for that year, simply premising 

 that the rainfall in all parts of Scotland was unusually small in 

 1855, being one-fourth below that of the previous year, and con- 

 siderably under an average. From these tables the reader will 

 also observe the heights above sea level of the various localities, 

 where the observations were made. We also specify the rain- 

 fall at the various stations from 1st May to 1st November, that 

 being the most important season for the grain crops. 



Weather Table of Districts in Dumfriesshire for the 



Year 1855. 



Middle and Upper Nithsdale. 



