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there submerged ; trees, haystacks, and crops of different kinds, 

 standing in the water ; hay that had been mown but not carried 

 floating upon the surface ; splash pools, if nothing more, in 

 almost all the meadows ; rivers running over even to the edges of 

 the line, and in a few instances crossing the rails ; — such was the 

 scene, most unusual for the time of year, which repeated itself at 

 intervals along the "whole distance till within a mile or two of the 

 suburbs of London itself, the flooded districts being most observable 

 in the neighbourhoods of Norwich, Ely, and Cambridge. 



August was a still wetter month in Bath than July, though not 

 so wet as June. As seen in the above table, it had a rainfall of 

 more than two inches above the average. Floods, consequently, 

 were as general in that month as in the month previous. The 

 worst of these, perhaps, was the bursting of the river bank at 

 Lakenheath, whereby, according to a recent statement in the 

 Cambridge Chronicle, " 2,500 acres of fen land were laid under 

 water for the space of two months." Here in Bath, during the 

 third week of August, the Avon overflowed its banks, both above 

 and below the town, doing much damage to the crops of hay. 



The summer, too, in addition to its wet, was equally remarkable 

 as the spring for its low temperature. The mean temperature of 

 June was two and a half degrees below the average of 14 years ; 

 the thermometer at its highest never rising to 70°, and on three 

 days during the first week not getting up to 60". 



The mean temperature of July was four and a half degrees 

 below the average, being lower than that of any previous July 

 since the commencement of the Literary Institution observations 

 in 1865. Only on six days in this month did the thermometer 

 rise to 70° or above, four of those days being the last four in 

 the month, and it never got up to 80?. 



The mean temperature of August was higher than that of 

 July, but still two degrees beloAv the average. The maximum 

 only rose to 70° or above on seven days, and never got higher 

 than 77°-7. 



