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OBSERVATIONS on RAIN GAGES. 

 By THOMAS GARNET T, M. D. Member of the 

 Royal Medical, Royal Phyftcal, and Natural Hi/lory Societies 

 of Edinburgh, of the Medical Society of London, and the 

 Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchejler. 



1 HE theory of rain has long engaged the attention of philo- ReadJan*y> 

 fophers, and many ingenious and plaufible conjedures on the 

 nature of this meteor have been given to the public; but the 

 fads of which we are at prefent poffeffed feem to me to be too 

 few in number, and to have been made at places too remote 

 from each other, either to refute or confirm the theories in 

 queftion. This confideration induced me to colled all the obfer- 

 vations on this fubjed I could ; and in the laft volume of the 

 Memoirs of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchefter 

 is an Eflay of mine containing a number of obfervations made 

 on the weftern coaft of this ifland. Since the publication of 

 that Memoir I have received journals from different parts of the 

 Vol. V. K k kingdom, 



