180 OBSERVATIONS ON THE FALL OF RAIN. 
is called the Spring Water Lodge, and is situated 
upon Hampson’s pastures, near Belmont. The 
gauge is placed at an elevation of about 800 feet 
- above the level of the sea, being about 500 feet 
above the town of Bolton, and perhaps 700 or 
800 feet below the highest land in the district. 
It is sunk in the ground, in an exposed situation 
on the westerly slope of the valley of the river 
Eagley, the top of the funnel being about a foot 
above the level of the ground. The quantity of 
rain which has fallen during the last twelve 
months, from the 13th January last year, to the 
13th of January this year, is given in the follow- 
ing table, in which I am enabled, by the kindness 
of Mr. H. H. Watson, of Bolton, to give the fall 
of rain there, during the same period. The two 
accounts, and Mr. Watson’s average for ten years, 
as published in the 6th volume, new series, of the 
Society’s Memoirs, are placed together for the 
facility of comparison. 
