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. The quantity of rain falling in one day, fufliclent to have 

 that day denominated wet, I have faid to be about one pound 

 troy. It i^ evident, however, that this cannot be fettled with 

 fuch mathematical precifion that even i of that quantity may 

 not be fuffigienjt. AncL hence, a thw///^ may be denominated wet 

 during,, f^venteen or eighteen days, of which only 12 lb. of 

 rain or 1.89 1668 inches have fallen, which is about f of a lb. 

 per day, particularly in the fummer and autumnal feafons j 

 variable if ten, and dry if only eight. 



In denominating the Spring feafon wet or dry^ I now proceed 

 to fliew that Dodtor Rutty, in ufing the words -wet and dry, has 

 applied them conformably to the above determinations. In order 

 to which nothing more will be neceffary than to prove that he 

 has applied them to the fame modifications of the weather and 

 the fame meafures of each as Mr. Barker of Lyndon, whom I 

 may ftile a cotemporary reporter for a great part of the time, 

 .and a more aflijtj^ovs aftd meritorious England has not yet pro- 

 duced. -' 



Mr. Barker then in the Philofophical Tranfadlions for the 

 year 1770 has given an account of the monthly quantity of 

 rain that fell at. Lyndon in Rutland frona the year 1737 to the 

 year 1770 inclufively. He obferves that in common fpeaking 

 thofe are called wet years in which the Summer, the growing 

 feafon, was wet and cold, and thofe dry ones in which the 

 Summer was dry and burning. He then tells us that the years 

 1737, 40, 41, 50, 60, 62 and 6^ were complained of as dry. 



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