of Meteorological Obfervations. 243 
Meteorological Obfervations and Remarks on the Weather 
at Dumfries. * 
THERE is reafon to conclude, 
rt. That the time when dry or wet weather 
thay be expected tliroughout the year, is very un- 
certain in this country. 
2d. ‘That when the weather gets into a fixed 
ftate, or into particular fets of being either wet or 
dry, it does not appear to be difpofed to change 
to the contrary on a fudden, but takes always fome 
time, after the figns of fair weather or rainy have 
Ocairted, before it totally alters its difpofition. 
gd. That broken weather generally ends with 
very confiderable falls in the internal and higher 
parts of the country, as the weather moflly fettles 
immediately after a flood in the river Nith. 
4th. That the heavieft rains, when of long 
apunemiag generally begin with the wind plowing 
H hi etait eafterly, 
'* Thefe remarks were firft publifhed by Mr, Copland 
in the Dumfries weekly Journal. 
+ The fources and great body of the Nith come from 
a great diftance, viz. from Ayrfhire and its confines, 
There is often a great fall of rain at Dumfries, without 
the Nith being in any, or but a {mall degree affefied by 
* them, 
