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one 34 feet from the ground it was 41-002 inches for the 

 last year. The difference between the fall in the two 

 gauges is 6 '941 inches, or about 14 J per cent, less rain fell 

 last year in the higher than in the lower gauge. In the 

 same table I give the average fall for five years in each 

 gauge, and by comparing the results I find that for such an 

 average fall about 16 per cent, less rain falls in the upper 

 than in the lower gauge. 



In the next table I give the fall of rain during the day 

 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and the faU during the night, from 

 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. The amount of rain that fell during the 

 day exceeded, the fall during the night in six months of the 

 year, but in the remaining months, namely, January, 

 AugTist, September, November, and December, the fall 

 during the night exceeded, the day fall. The total differ- 

 ence between the night and. day fall is much less than 

 during 1871. In that year the excess of the day over the 

 night fall was 4*136 inches, whilst during the past year it 

 was only 1*891 inches. 



