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place where the mass of water had fallen was discovered. It was a 
barley-field of about five acres in extent, the greater part of which was 
beaten down flat and hard, as if an enormous body of water had been 
suddenly poured out upon it. Beyond this field and on higher 
ground, there were no signs of the fall of water to any great amount. 
‘he part of the hill where this waterspout had emptied itself was 
thus fully ascertained, In the vicinity heavy rain had descended, 
for minor tributaries had left marks of union with the main current ; 
but in these there was nothing remarkable. 
* As the water rushed down the hill towards Kemerton, it did not 
spread itself out as under ordinary circumstances it would have done, 
but flowed in a body, as if kept together by the velocity of the cur- 
rent, the physical features of the place aiding it in this respect ; for 
there the hill is steep, and the course of the water was in a gully. 
The general depth of the torrent was from six to seven feet, though 
in one instance marks upon a tree were met with siateen feet above 
the ground. We must not overlook, however, the bending of the 
tree under the power of the stream ; consequently, though the mark 
would lead to the belief that the water had risen sixteen feet, it does 
not follow that it actually did so. 
The rain ceased immediately after the fall of water; and it is 
said that a strong sulphurous odour was perceived.—(Communicated 
by David P. Thomson, M.D., Liverpool.) 
2. Fall of Rain in the Lake and Mountain Districts of Cum- 
berland and Westmoreland, in the year 1848. By J. F. Miller, 
Esq. 
N 
O- Rain, in Inches, Wet Days. 
1. High Street, 7°34 
2. Round Close, Whitehaven, é 1670 | 210 
3. St James’s Church Steaple, 36°34 
4, The Flosh, 5 ; ; ‘ 60°82 207 
5. Cockermouth, . ‘ : 3 4 52°37 228 
6. Bassenthwaite Halls, 7 - A 47:06 196 
7. Keswick, é ‘ : : 66°40 229 
8. Gillerthwaite, nner elite : ‘ 5 97-73 “we 
9. Loweswater Lake, : ; ; : 76°66 217 
10. Foot of Crummock Lake, : . : 98:07 207 
1l. Gatesgarth, Buttermere, : ‘ ; 133°55 
12. Eskdale Head, : ; ; , 70°38 eh 
13. Do., centre of Vale, - z : ‘ 86-78 205 
14. Wastdale Head, j : : : 115°32 243 
15. The How, Troutbeck, 91°34 201 
16. Ambleside, | westmoretana . 76°82 he 
17. Langdale Head, 130:38 212 
18. Seathwaite, 6 inches above surface, 160-89 } 232 
19. Do., 18 inches above do., Borrowdale,  157:22 
20, Stonethwaite, ‘ 150-24 242 
