Meteorological Obfervations. 635 
This influence of the hills in attracting the 
clouds, and occafioning a fuperabundance of 
tain, is no where more confpicuous than at 
Kendal, where (though only twenty-one miles 
diftant) the quantity that falls is one-third more 
than at Lancafter; and it is by no means un- 
ufual to fee, from the church-yard at Lancafter, 
the hills about Kendal involved in thick clouds, 
whilft the fky on this fide Farlton-Knott (a 
high rock about two miles north of Burton) 
appears perfectly clear. 
A very ftrong inftance of this influence came 
under my obfervation a few years ago. I was 
at Peel Cajile, which is fituated on an Ifland at 
the wefternmoft point of that low tract of coun- 
try, which ftretches about ten miles from the 
foot of the Lancafhire mountains, near Ulver- 
ftone, to the weftward, where it meets the fea. 
The wind was ftrong from the S. W. the day 
cloudy, with fun-fhine at intervals; but not a 
drop of rain. On going the next day to Ulver- 
ftone, we found the roads perfectly dry till we 
came within three or four miles of the town, 
when we faw marks of heavy rain, and found 
upon inquiry, that it had rained there the whole 
afternoon. Here the clouds which paffed rea- 
dily over the low tra& of country, on approach- 
ing the high hills, were attracted by them, 
producing an additional quantity of rain in their 
vicinity. 
Kkke2 Ill. Taking 
