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It appears from this that, as a rule, Autumn is the wettest 

 season, and Spring the driest season in Bath. In the Rainfall 

 Table, deduced from the first decade, as given in my former 

 paper, the fFiiiter season is shown to be the wettest ; but there is 

 not very much difference between the autumn and winter falls in 

 either table, and either season might prove to be the wettest in 

 any particular year. 



Taking the seasons separately in reference to their extreme 

 character of wet and dry, it may be worth recording that the 

 greatest spring rainfall (10-848 inches) occurred in 1878, the 

 least spring rainfall (2-737 inches) in 1883. 



The wettest summer (rainfall, 15-583 inches) occurred in 1879 ; 

 the summer of 1882 (rainfall, 14-701 inches) being nearly as 

 wet; the driest summer in the series (rainfall, 2 592 inches/ 

 occurred in 1870. 



The greatest autumn rainfall (14302 inches) occurred in 1885 ; 

 the least autumn rainfall (4-227 inches) occurred in 1884. 

 Hence the driest autumn in twenty years was succeeded by 

 the wettest. 



The wettest winter in the series was 1869, rainfall amounting 

 to 13-388 inches. The driest winter Avas that of 1878, rainfall 

 being 4-830 inches. It is worth noting that 1878 was one of 

 the Jive consecutive wet years spoken of above; but the heavy falls 

 were in the spring, summer and autumn months, especially in 

 the month of May. 



In reference to wet and dry months, it may be observed, 



