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OBSERVATIONS. 



I SHALL firft compare the wetnefs of the feafons with the 

 rules of probabiHty above given. 



I ft, In the Spring months there fell 4,374 inches of rain, 

 that is above two per month on an average, therefore this feafon 

 was wet. Moft rain fell in the firft month. 



adly, The Spring being -wet, the probability of a wet Sum- 

 mer was i by the fifth rule ; accordingly, except in June, it 

 rained above two inches in each month, and upon an average 

 above three. However it rained but forty-eight days inltead of 

 fifty-four. 



jdly, The Summer being wet, the probability of wet, dry 

 and variable Autumns were as 3, 5, and 12, by the eighth rule ; 

 however it turned out ivet, which was the leaft probable event. 

 It rained forty-eight days, and there fell above ^.^ inches. 



Again, after a ivel Spring and wet Summer the probabilities of 

 wf/, dry and variable Autumns were i, 2 and 2 refpe(5tively by 

 the eleventh rule ; by which it appears that the wetnefs of this 

 Autumn was perfecftly extraordinary, and not to be expcded. 



Lastly, there were ftorms on the igth and 20th of March 

 from the South, therefore the probability of a wet Summer was 

 5 to I according to the fourth obfervation. 



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