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side of the pier. The line marking the height, is immediately 
beneath the number, as in the xvi. above. Wylam Bridge 
crosses the Tyne about a mile above the tide-reach; and except- 
ing Stanley Burn, which runs in just below it, and the drainage 
supplying the Whittle Dean Reservoirs, all the waters of the 
Tyne above the tide-reach flow through it. It is, therefore, a 
convenient place to mark its fluctuations; and I trust that, by 
some means or other, the registration may be continued in un- 
broken series for many years. 
I have noted this guage nearly daily during 1862 and 1863) 
and have introduced the result in the tables. As before remarked, 
the lowest point to which [I have seen the water fall, is *7 of a 
foot above zero; the highest I have known, since 1852, was on 
December 7, 1856, when it reached xvim.; and on November 25, 
1861, when it reached the same point; on both these occasions 
much harm was done by the flood, and the water was more than 
1 foot deep on the rails at Blaydon station. 
In the terrace of the parsonage garden at Ovingham, the height 
of several remarkable floods has been marked; the flood of 1771 
among the rest. 
The Rev. George Bigge informs me that the flood of Decem- 
ber 7,1856, as noted by him at the time, was, by careful measure- 
ment, 10 feet below the mark for the great flood of 1771. 
Now the flood of December 7, 1856, was at xvut. of the Tyno- 
meter; therefore, if we might assume the area of the river, at 
Ovingham and at Wylam to be the same, the flood of 1771 
would have been at xxvuit. of the Tynometer. 
A flood in 1815 was, as marked at Ovingham, 2 feet higher 
than those of 1856 and 1861 above named. 
As regards the observations of the wind for the district, I fear 
little can be said, and that little on imperfect grounds. The 
returns sent in, which are capable of tabulation, are only four in 
number; these four I have reduced to their mean direction 
and amount, which shows the former to be 8.W. by W.; and 
the amount to be 93 per cent., or 337 days out of 365. But 
this amount is on the supposition that the winds noted, all blew 
with equal force; which of course was not the case. The direc- 

