200 REPORT OF THE RAIN GAUGES. 
The difference at Marple is 57.7 per cent, and 
at Comb’s reservoir 743 per cent. 
Mr. Meadows, who has furnished these returns, 
has also sent one of the rain fallen during 1844, 
at the top of the inclined plane of the Peak Fo- 
rest railway, near Chapel-le-Frith, at which place 
the gauge has always been placed on the ground. 
The account is as follows :— 
Ins. Tenths. 
SPADUATY: norisncisev seavasy er sathside=vext Sate 
PC HEGAIY, ta nxesscnanontesiesxsannen cis 2; § 
Marelisdcvcsctessascccaccseneuescevouss 4 5 
REAL Ge vee nateeasewer scene teccee res evs i he a 
DEAR. fe cenpe fete dekh Caged odtaes 0 3 
MUNG Messe cert kee cocsctee meses 1 9 
SPUN Ginruaw tcceancmednanecenssarsidedwecece 4 4 
PUISUSE Honcacwess a ncsnenteaer acdsee 4 3 
DIGOLGHIUEN 0. aseceaocceesbur cs ven ot eae cl 
OCLODEr i cccccrscsvesesscectecteves aces b fety: 
INOVEMDED: cc vnceos cies sicceiicee tacceien Bela ef 
IWECEMDER «cc. cecscnscevsta-se-cce cee or 22 
Notal Gcicbites sce 33 Ins 
The level of this place, which is far m among 
the hills, is about 1121 feet above the sea, and 
the rain in 1840, which was about 1-12th below 
an average year, was 484 inches. 
