OBSERVATIONS 
ON THE 
RELATION WHICH THE FALL OF RAIN BEARS 
TO THE 
WATER FLOWING FROM THE GROUND. 
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BY JOHN FREDERIC BATEMAN, M. INST. C. E. 
Read 6th of February, 1844. 
In the year 1799 Dr. Dalton brought this 
subject before the notice of the society, in a 
valuable paper entitled ‘‘ Experiments and Ob- 
servations to determine whether the quantity of 
Rain and Dew is equal to the quantity of water 
carried off by rivers, and raised by evaporation ; 
with an inquiry into the Origin of Springs.’’* 
In that paper, after observing that ‘‘ it is 
scarcely possible to contemplate without admira- 
tion the beautiful system of nature, by which the 
* Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 
Manchester, Vol. 5. 
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