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criterion, I have taken the average of six years from Mr. Symon's boolc, 

 and find the result even more noticeable. I find Grasmere had twenty- 

 eight inches; Ambleside, twenty-six; Haweswater, forty-three; Patter- 

 dale, twenty-eight; Windermere, seventeen; Wythburn, forty- three; 

 Barrow House, twenty-eight; and Seathwaite eighty inches more than 

 Keswick. Indeed, if any one will examine carefully the annual accounts 

 to which I have referred, it will be found that the quantity is greatest at 

 Scavvfell and Sty Head, and the places in the line of showers coming 

 from the south-west have the greatest fall. Thus, while Kendal and 

 Keswick have about an equal quantity, the places intermediate have 

 considerably more. 



My own observations for twenty-five years, (including the tv/o 

 exceptional years of 1852 and 1872), give an average of 58-61 inches, 

 this may fairly be accepted as the ascertained average rain-fall at Keswick. 



