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REMARKS ON TABLE II. 1874. 
This table gives at a glance a perfect view of rainfall experienced in the County of 
Hereford during the last 57 years. 
The stations are :—1st, Pool Cottage, situated on the shoulder of Aconbury 
Hill; 2nd, Burcher Court, near Titley ; 3rd, Rocklands, 4 miles W.S.W. of Ross. 
Ast, Pool Cottage is 4 miles and 6 furlongs S. by W. of Hereford, and, by 
barometrical measurement, 485 feet abovesea level. 
The mean of the rainfall totals for 25 years is 30.65 inches. 
The dryest year (1820) gave a total of 22.43 inches, and the wettest year 
(1839) a total of 40.63 inches, 
The observer was the late Captain Pendergrass, who appears to have been 
the leader of Meteorological observers in this county. 
2nd, Burcher Court, near Titley, is 16 miles 7 furlongs N.W. of Hereford, 
and (by Ordnance, Railway, and Aneroid levelling combined) 597 feet above sea 
level. 
The mean of the rainfall totals for 12 years is 31.24 inches. 
The dryest year (1850) gave a total of 22.70 inches, and the wettest year 
(1852) a total of 43.53 inches. 
The observer was the late R. B. Boddington, Esq., a most careful and trust- 
worthy recorder of meteorological phenomena. 
We have in the Burcher Court series a record of the rainfall of 1852, next 
to 1872 the wettest year recorded by Herefordshire observers ; indeed that year is 
the last on the list of Mr. Boddington’s printed rainfall report. This printed 
report contains the monthly and yearly totals of 12 years only, but after Mr. 
Boddington’s death the rainfall obsetvations were continued at Burcher Cottage, a 
residence very near Burcher Court but about 40 feet lower, and the yearly totals 
will be found at p. 50 in the Woolhope Transactions for 1872, with the exception 
* of 1864, 1865 and 1867. 
The mean of the rainfall totals for 30 years is 31.66 inches. 
3rd, Rocklands is 14 miles §.8.E. of Hereford, and (by Railway, Barome- 
trical, and Aneroid levelling combined) 97 feet 7 inches above sea level. 
The observer J. M. Herbert, Esq., commenced this valuable series of obser- 
vations, in 1852 so that it dates its beginning from April 1st in that remarkable 
year. 
The mean of the rainfall totals for 22 years is 31.72 inches. 
The dryest year (1870) gave a total of 26,20 inches, and the wettest year 
(1872) a total of 48,68 inches, 
