TRANSACTIONS OP THE SECTIONS. 



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of the prevalence of different classes of winds — as from the North and East during 

 the coldest years of the cycle, and from the South and West in stormy seasons pre- 

 ceding these ; 3. in respect of amounts of rain, the wet and dry years being con- 

 spicuous ; and of the proportions (found sometimes in gradual increase or decrease 

 from year to year) in which it fell in the different seasons ; the winter being placed 

 lowest, the autumn at top. All which becomes still more interesting, when we are able 

 to refer by recollection, or by any good register of the weather, to past seasons ; or 

 when we may compare what is here presented with seasons occurring hereafter. 



Table of the Proportions of the Winds (by observation once a day) in each Year of 



the Cycle. 



Meteorological Register for 184- 1-42, from Diurnal Observations taken at 

 Beddgelert in the County of Carnarvon. By John Prichard. 



The several instruments are read off every day at 8 a.m. In noting the " diurnal state 

 of the weather," it should be observed that by " Fair" is meant, that no rain fell — 



