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and Dr. Tunstall.+ There is however a “Sketch of the Topography 
and climate of Bath” in the Bath and Bristol Magazinet in 1834, 
several years earlier than the two works above mentioned. In 
this paper, to which only initials are attached, there is, first, a 
description given of the town, the river, and the springs by which 
it is supplied, the geology and scenery of the neighbourhood, after 
which the character of the climate is deduced from the results of 
a register of the rain and temperature kept for fifteen years, the 
exact years, however, not being stated. The rainfall is set at 
35.30 inc., very much above the average for the last ten years, as 
determined bythe measurements at the Literary Institution, though 
it would be hazardous to consider the amount as necessarily 
incorrect for the particular term of years to which it relates : more 
however need not be said on this point at present. The number 
of rainy days, or those on which rain or snow falls, is estimated at 
162. It is thought by the writer of this paper that Bath does not 
deserve “the stigma of humidity so generally appended to it,”— 
evidently judging of its humidity by the rainfall alone. 
The mean temperature of Bath, deduced from “the mean of 
the daily extremes as furnished by a register thermometer, placed 
in a north aspect, and about fifteen feet from the ground,” is said 
to be 51°.1, which is about half a degree more than the mean 
obtained at the Literary Institution, and this mean may likewise 
be correct, or nearly so, for the years it refers to; though the 
great difference in the height at which the thermometer is fixed in 
the two cases must be taken into account. The mean temper- 
ature of each month is also given,—it being in some months not 
very dissimilar to the Institution mean, but in other months 
showing a considerable difference; it is hardly necessary, 
however, to repeat these here in detail, The above observations 
are said to have been “ made on the eastern side of the city.” 
{ Treatise on the Bath Waters, 1850. Climate of Bath, 1854. 
} Vol. iii, p. 289. 
