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How is it now with regard to towns lying more to the west ? I 
regret that, in attempting to answer this question, I find very few 
places from which returns can be had to compare with those of 
Bath for the same term of years as above, viz., 1866-1870. The 
only ones I can refer to in the Registrar-General’s Quarterly 
Reports are Taunton, Barnstaple and Truro; the year 1866, 
however, being omitted in the case of Taunton. Towns lying 
very close upon the coast I have passed over, proximity to the sea 
affecting the meteorological conditions of such localities, and 
putting them on a different footing from towns situated inland. 
The following Table, accordingly, gives the mean depression of 
the dew-point below the temperature of the air, and the mean 
relative humidity, for each season, during the same term of years 
as in the previous Table, at each of the three towns above-named. 
Spring. Summer. 
Taunton. |Barnstaple|Truro. |/Taunton.|Barnstaple] Truro. 
Mean Depres- 
sion of Dew- Brad 5°.8 5°.3 8°.0 8°.1 6°.8 
point. 
| Mean Humidity.| 83 82 82 76 75 78 
. 
: Autumn, Winter. 
4 
§ Taunton. |Barnstaple} Truro. | Taunton. |Barnstaple} Truro. 
‘ ee ee ee A ee ene 
,o' 
7. 
__ | Mean Depres- 
| sion of Dew- 42.5 5°. OY St ee gmg'|-3%9 
¥ a; | point. 
_ | Mean Humidity.| 86 82 82 89 86 87 
) An 
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