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With us it was fqually on the night of the yth at W. y 

 barometer 29.53. 



March.. 



Pbre La Cotte remarked that the mean height of the ^ in 

 this month was below its flandard, which at Montmorency is 

 27 inches 10 lines and i, or 29.705 Englilh. 



July, August and September. 



These months were uncommonly wet in France, as with 

 us. 



I HAVE often remarked that the more it rains in May 

 the Icfs it rains in September. If it rains two inches in May 

 there falls lefs than one in September. • This I obferved in 

 England. But it is about four to three in any year that the 

 fall of rain in September will be greater than in May. 



Dr. Hales has fhewn that on plains, and in the climate of 

 London, twenty-two inches of rain are fully fufficient for all the 

 purpofes of vegetation, and forty-two in a hilly or mountainous- 

 country. I Hales, 56. 



