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temperatures especially not falling so low as on the hills, a matter 
of considerable importance to certain classes of invalids. 
This may have been often assumed to be the case before, but I 
do not believe it has ever been put to the proof, or shown to be 
sustained by the results of any comparative observations, made 
contemporaneously in the town and on the hills above. 
And if the results above stated, referring as they do to the 
highest ground in the immediate neighbourhood of Bath compared 
with the Institution Gardens, be correct—and there is no doubt of 
the correctness of Mr. Weston’s observations, upon which they 
are based, so far as they go—then we may fairly estimate the 
climate at any elevation between those two extremes as of an 
intermediate character according to what the particular height 
may be. For the present, however, it can be only an estimation, 
as I know of no continued observations other than the above 
which can be appealed to in reference to other heights, none at 
least carried on contemporaneously with the above. 
Other Observations in or near Bath.—Though not comparable with 
those just alluded to, it may be desirable, nevertheless, here to 
place on record a few other observations relating to temperature 
made by different parties in, or in the immediate neighbourhood 
of, the town. Mr. Lockey, of Swainswick, made no observations 
on the temperature of that locality, confining himself entirely, as 
far as I am aware, to the rain-fall of which I have already spoken. 
During my own residence at Swainswick, from 1852 to 1860, I 
kept a register of the thermometer, attending also to a few other 
matters connected with weather changes; but the register was 
often interrupted in consequence of leaving home, and had it 
been continuous, there was no other kept elsewhere at that time 
that I know of with which to compare it. 
I kept a more connected register at Darlington Place, on Bath- 
wick hill, the estimated height being about 90 feet above the 
Institution Gardens. This register commences with December, 
1862, and ends with July, 1869. Even here there are several 
