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to Braehead, it reached the public road between Dalswinton 

 Lodge and Boghead Bridge, cutting it up to the depth of four 

 feet and thirty yards in length, and depositing great quantities of 

 stones and mud upon the Dalswinton meadows. Part also came 

 down upon the Duncow Burn, flooding the houses of the village, 

 and carrying along with it great deposits of stones and mud. 

 At Courance also, in Kirkmichael, either a separate waterspout, 

 or more probably a part of the same, came down upon the Garrel, 

 carrying havoc in its progress and causing no small amount of 

 damage. The Garrel passed by a culvert below the Dumfries 

 and Moffat Road, and the culvert being blocked, a chasm was 

 made in the road at that point extending to a length of 150 feet 

 and 25 feet in depth. 



With regard to the hygrometer observations, the mean dry 

 bulb reading for the year was 47.6 deg., as ascertained from the 

 daily morning and evening readings, and exactly the same as the 

 mean annual temperature calculated from the daily maxima and 

 minima; while the mean wet bulb was 44.9 deg. From these 

 values the mean temperature of the dew point comes out at 

 41.8 deg., and the relative humidity at 81, saturation being equal 

 to 100. This indicates a dryness a little above the average, 

 corresponding with the fact that the rainfall was decidedly under 

 the mean. 



The records of wind direction vary little from what is usual. 

 The wind which prevailed during the greatest number of days, as 

 it never fails to do, was the south-west, which had 93 days. 

 The next was the west, with 57. And if we compare the 

 northerly and easterly with the southerly and westerly, we find 

 as the result that the former blew on 129 days and the latter on 

 231 days, while a few were calm or variable. 



The Weather in Relation to Health. By Dr Maxwell Ross. 



Dr Maxwell Ross made the following remarks: — 

 He noticed the fact that the highest temperature recorded in 

 Dumfries was in July, and the reading 84.7. He thought that 

 was the highest record at any of the sixty meteorological stations 

 in Scotland. A somewhat similar occurrence took place in the 

 month of April. The absolute maximum was observed at Dum- 

 fries on 19th April, being 67.5. The weather sayings, about St. 



