TRANSACTIONS OF THE ‘SECTIONS, 19 
The consequence was the heaviest flood which had occurred at these places for at 
least sixty years past. 
Windermere Lake had not been so high for the last fifteen years; on the night be- 
tween the 26th and 27th it rose 2 feet in perpendicular height; the quays along the 
banks of the lake were immersed in water, and much wood was carried away by the 
current and lost. Keswick Lake had not been so high since November 30th, 1838. 
Of the total quantity of rain, measured in the vale of Borrowdale in 1845, 106-58 
inches fell in the months of January, March, August, October, November and De- 
cember; and nearly 46 inches in the two latter months. 
Such was the violence of the storm on the night of the 28th of December in the 
lake districts, that a number of fish were found next day on the margin of Bassen- 
thwaite Lake, which had been thrown up by the waves in the course of the night by the 
force of the wind,—a circumstance wholly without a parallel, except on the night of the 
memorable 6th of January, 1839. The rain which fell in the preceding twenty-four 
hours amounted to 4:22 inches; at Whitehaven the quantity was °323, or nearly one- 
third of an inch. 
Through the kindness of various gentlemen I am enabled to add returns of the rain 
in 1845, from several places throughout Great Britain, by way of comparison with the 
quantities measured in the lake districts. 
inches. 
Allenheads, Northumberland ......ssseeeseseesseeerseee S6'411 
Kendal, Westmoreland ............. See daae seereveee 00'S46 
Cartmel, ditto.....++.s+.- ar eeaadnae's Seba ita cla aes tad sala 3 53°665 
Rampside, ditto ...ssescseeeeeeseeees Rae ete tale vaciae’d 40-289 
Tivil, ditto ...ssecccceceees aeiaaesene errors Soaenitsbdalels eee 40°000 
Bolton-le~Moors......+++ seaawevaadeus Sacekgevan waa deeoenae 48:110 
Carlisle, Cumberland..........s.+0+ Bi scala ca tiorsta S08 hea ees. 31°280 
Brougham Hall, ditto .....ssesseeseeeee iia Wan aheaawenuas 35:000 
Manchester...... seh geste eas arial site aah eats tea socevece: 44°415 
Doncaster. .........000s pita usledha tists bydeicpangene he vaunres 29198 
Highfield House, Nottinghamshire ......... Sunde neice va 29°595 
Girencesten)sdo.cassccony ccsernasenadatedeasaace NM ieevadaesatali 251 OO 
Leeds ........ Settee desadess ius dane sundae aa esscarpeederene 25°586 
North Shields............ i sear da lea Sane pW iedvavadcemaese 26:200 
Culloden, Inverness, N.B....... de Migtet od: ub ivideadvess < 27°632 
Applegarth Manse near Lockerby, N.B. .......c2c00e . 30°32 
Arbroath, Co. Angus, N.B. ......s0esee0 eis gees Maas 28-211 
Liverpool ........4+ Aree arch ac cotener er core apie Rearherrree 34:06 
*)| pStratton, Cornwalhi.icsdelevcidesaccvacsane Me Weces aware 40°89 
Uckfield, Sussex........se000+ Betis atin caieny cacteitscsaeatas 25:08 
Empingham, Rutlandshire ...........secsesesscseeeneees 24°61 
Helston, Cornwall ............:sceeecessseeeeees bce ceases goeSD 
Kelso, Roxburghshire, N.B.......... BS Sod caeeteseet 24°42 
Makerstoun, near Kelso ......sceccscancesseceenscnsenses 21:27 
The fall at Seathwaite is more than 3 times the quantity measured at Whitehaven, 
one of the wettest éowns in the kingdom. It exceeds the fall at Leeds by 6 times; at 
_ Culloden by 53 times; at Doncaster and Highfield House, N ottinghamshire, by 5 times; 
__ at Cirencester and Arbroath by 54 times; and at Makerstoun near Kelso, the seat of 
Sir Thomas Brisbane, Bart., by more than 7 times. 
Seathwaite exceeds Doncaster, in January, by 15 times ; in November by 21 times ; 
and in December by 9 times. It exceeds the quantity at York, in January, by 16 
inches, or 20 times; in March by 9 times; and in November by 20 times. It ex- 
ceeded Dublin, in March, by 14 times; in April by 13 times; in October by 5 times; 
and in November by 7 times. 
The quantity measured at Seathwaite and Langdale Head, in the month of De- 
_ eember (24-02), is more than falls at some places in Great Britain during a year. 
_ Mr, Miller said, “ It is much to be regretted. that the meteorology of our lake and 
- mountain districts should have been so long neglected. Prior to the establishment 
of these gauges, there were none stationed in the lake district of Cumberland, and, so 
_ far as I am aware, only two among the lakes of Westmoreland, viz. one at Esthwaite 
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