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2°11 || January 2°81 3°20 3°18} 3°50 
1°64|| February | 2°29 2°62 2°76 | 2°57 
1°59 |} March 2°69 2°92 2°80| 3:07 
1°85 || April 2°07 2°25 2°50| 2°37 
221 || May 2:78 2-71 2-61| 2°54 
2°67 || June 3°38 3°17 3°02| 2°77 
2°73 || July 3°83 3°07 3°28] 3°59 
2°90 || August 3°86 4°01 3°23| 3°95 
2°62 || September | 3°80 3°86 3°48| 4:03 
3°07 || October 4°26 4°64 4°66| 4°64 
2°31 || November | 3°39 3°58 3°77| 3°71 
2°31 || December | 3°51 3°68 3°60| 3°74 
28°01 Total 
1] INTRODUCTION 25 
Although rainfall stations are not numerous on the hills of north 
Derbyshire, Dr Mill (vide Linton, 1903: 3) thinks that “average 
falls exceeding fifty inches (127 cm.) in the year occur at several 
points in the high ground; but it is unlikely that so great a 
rainfall as sixty inches (152 cm.) is reached.” 
Average Monthly Rainfall for the 30 years, 1870—1899 
38°67 | 35°22 | 50°17 | 41°36 40°21 
Meltham 
38°89 | 40°48 | 41°00 
SMOKE 
The district, lying as it does between the great coalfields 
and manufacturing districts of south Lancashire, and south-west 
Yorkshire, possesses an atmosphere which is frequently vitiated 
by smoke. The greasy soot settles on the leaves and stems of 
plants, and gives them a permanently dirty appearance. A clean 
expanse of white snow on the hills is often palpably blackened 
in two or three hours’ time. Mr A. Wilson (1900) has stated 
that “the great smoke drift from south and east Lancashire 
could be seen crossing the Pennine Range of moorlands, and 
1 10 inches = 25-4 centimetres. 
