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On this table we may remark, firfl, that when the quantity 

 of rain during the Summer months does not amount to 5.044 

 inches, or 32 lb. troy, which is at the rate of 10,33 lb. per 

 month, or 1,628 inches, the Summer is counted dry. To this, 

 however, it may be objedled, firft, that the Summer of 1737 

 was accounted afry, though the quantity of .jain amounted to 

 above feven inches, but it mufl be obferved that above fix of 

 them fell in Auguft, and the two preceding months were moft 

 remarkably dry ; fecondly, it may be faid that the Summer of 

 1762 was deemed dry though there fell 5.498 inches ; but in 

 this _ cafe ajfo June ahd Jvily ii^ere remarkably dry ; befides 

 much of the rain might have fallen, in a; few d^ys^ and not have 

 been fufficiently difperfed and divided through each month, the 

 frequency of rain not being noticed in the tables. All this being 

 duly confidered, it mufl be allowed that thefe refults are 

 ftriclly conformable to my determinations. I have omitted the 

 year 1740 becaufe that year could not poflibly be counted dry 

 at Lyndon from the fmall quantity of rain that fell in Sumi- 

 mer, it having rained more in each of the Summer months 

 that year than in 1739, whofe Summer was accounted wet; 

 but it evidently acquired that denomination from the exceeding 

 fcarcity of rain in all other months. 



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