82 DR MILLER ON THE METEOROLOGY OF 
The rain gauges used were 5 inches in diameter, and their height above the 
ground was about 2 feet. They were all made under my own superintendence. 
The receivers of the mountain gauges were capacious vessels made of extra heavy 
copper double lapped at the seams, with the bottoms convex inwards, to enable 
them more readily to resist the expansive force of the water during its conversion 
into ice; they were calculated to hold 60 or 70 inches of rain. 
The glass metres (HowaRrp’s) employed were graduated by Mr Bare of the 
Poultry, or by his successor, Mr Porrer. 
The Roman numerals at the head of the Tables refer to corresponding numbers 
on a map of the Lake District, on which the gauges are laid down in small coloured 
circles, each with its tabular number attached. 
