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The quantity of rain, that fell at Man- 
chester during the month of August, 1809, 
amounted, according to Mr. Hanson’s journal, 
to 3.875 inches ; and at Malton in Yorkshire, 
by Mr. Stockton’s register, it reached the 
enormous quantity of 9.7 inches. At Bingley, 
in the West-Riding of that county, it is stated 
at 4.96 inches. It would add greatly to the 
value of meteorological registers, if they were 
made to include the variations in the electrical 
state of the atmosphere; and from a com- 
parison of these changes with the tables of 
diseases, kept by medical practitioners in the 
same situations, it is not improbable that 
valuable inferences might be drawn, especially 
respecting the cause of the prevailing epi- 
demics. \ 
Connected with the present subject, it may 
be remarked, that the temperature of the 
atmosphere during the last summer, though the 
season was distinguished by numerous and 
awful storms, has been unusually low. On 
the 10th of August, the day so remarkable for 
the violence and permanence of the thunder 
storm, it did not exceed 68°, and the mean 
heat of the day was only 55°.88, 
