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every part of this ifland, fimilar obfervations made 
in different parts can only determine. 
From the following obfervations it will be evi- 
dent, that the quantities of rain are very different 
in different places; and though in the fouthern | 
parts of the kingdom, much lefs rain falls than in 
the northern, yet it appears that this is not in 
proportion to the latitude of the place, but depends 
moft probably on local circumftances. ‘The annual 
mean, or average height of the rain which falls 
at Dumfries, deduced from the obfervations of 
feven years, is 34,658; the quantity which falls. 
at Lancafter, calculated from obfervations made in 
the fame years, is 40,3; while the average 
quantity which falls at Kendall, fituated between 
thefe two places, deduced from the obfervations of 
five years, is no lefs than 61,2235.—This differ- 
ence may probably be owing, at leaft in a great 
degree, to the high hills with which Kendal is 
furrounded, which form part of that ridge, not 
improperly called the Englifh Apennine, which 
rifes inthe north part of Derbyfhire, and running 
obliquely, nearly through the middle of the ifland, 
terminates in the Cheviot hills in Scotland. Thefe 
hills being in the region of the clouds, folicit them 
effectually to depofit their moifture. 
Were we poffeffed of the mean heights of the 
barometer in feveral parts of this ifland, both on 
the coafts and the inland parts, deduced from 
accurate obfervations, made for a confiderable 
number 
