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made for fhowers which fall very partially in moun- 
tainous countries. In April, 179, a heavy fhower 
fell on the upper gage, while the water received by 
that in the town was very trifling. ‘Lhis accounts 
for the ftrange deviation from the general rule obfer- 
vable in the notes for that month. 
The annual mean height of the rain at Waith- 
Sutton, for three years, beginning January 178g, is 
545133 the ratio of which is to that of Kendal, for 
the fame time, as 0,82 to 1. If the ratios of 
the three winter months, December, January, and 
February, and of the three fummer months, June, 
July, and Auguft be taken, the former will be as 
0,71 to 1; and the latter as r,oor to 1, a pheno- 
menon that cannot be explained clearly from any 
thing we know at prefent, yet the fact is certain, 
becaufe the ratios are determined from long periods. 
Is it that the air is more powerfully folicited in winter 
to depofit its water, bv approaching the hills, than it 
is in fammer? The idea is a mere conjecture, 
but the comparative fituations of the two places does 
not afford a better. Waith-Sutton lies about feven 
miles S. W. of Kendal, and about three miles from 
the eftuary before mentioned; its height above the 
high-water mark of the tide, does not exceed five or 
fix yards: the country about it being flatter and 
more open, tnan it is a few miles farther north. 
Tarlton-Knot, about a mile and a half fiuuth eaft 
of it, is the only hill of note in the neighbourhood ; 
it isa high, barren rock of lime-ftone. 
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