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unfrequent in Bath, in which, as before stated, the quantity falling 
in twenty-four hours, or only half the above time, has amounted 
to an inch or more, the same being less than 43 per-cent. of the 
yearly total. 
I may add further, while comparing the rain-falls in the Western 
and Eastern Counties, that the seasonal differences in the quantity 
of rain on the two opposite sides of England tend to confirm a law 
suggested by Mr. Gaster,* viz., that the greater the yearly 
average quantity of rain at any place the later in the year occurs 
the greatest monthly per-centage. 
The rain-fall in Bath, as already stated, is greatest in winter and 
least in spring, the summer fall being only a slight increase upon 
the spring fall, while the increase of the autumn fall upon the 
summer fall is very considerable. 
In Cambridgeshire, on the contrary, the rain-fall is greatest in 
autumn, but so little in excess of the summer fall, that if measured 
for a long term of years there is reason to believe the rain-fall for 
these two seasons might prove to be the same; while the winter 
and spring falls, (which in Bath are the extremes of wet and dry 
respectively), are not very different from each other. 
The rainfall at Bath may now be compared with that of other 
places in the west of England. First with the neighbourhood of 
Torquay : Mr. Pengelly has published a statement of the “rain-fall 
in the St. Mary Church Road, Torquay, during the nine years 
ending with December 31st, 1872,”+ all which years, except the 
first, fall within the series of years in the Table given at p. 254, 
though the latter series extend two years beyond 1872. 
The average yearly rain-fall at St. Mary Church Road is 37.65 
inches, being more than 73 inches above the Bath rain-fall, and 
about equal to what fell in Bath in 1872, the wettest year in the 
“ British Rainfall, 1867, p. 33. 
+ Transactions of Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, 
&c., 1873. 
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