Nuies of a meteorological Tour, 13 



May IG. — Dr. Spurzheim joined me at Ambleside. The 

 morning was warm, and the spring advancing rapidly. Towards 

 three in the afternoon rain came on in continued showers, and 

 lasted all the evening. Gusts of wind at night. 



May 17. — Walked from Ambleside in Westmoreland to Kes- 

 wick in Cumberland. Chiefly cloudy. Helvellyn was cloud- 

 capped all the morning ; and at length the cloud hanging over 

 its sides seemed to descend in rain, whose streams acquired pro- 

 gressive magnitude in descending. In the evening I noticed 

 the clouds getting higher. There arose also clouds in the valleys 

 and from the sides of the hills which crept up them and passed 

 oft' in the form of cumuli of the floccose kind. In the same 

 manner the nourishing cuviuli of showers form and feed them 

 from below. I had thus an opportunity of observing distinctly 

 the formation of cumuli in the eventide, and of their rising up- 

 wards, as an indication of the fine weather of the following day. 



May 18. (At Keswick.) — Early in the morning high masses 

 of cloud siiowed a sondercloudiness of form ; a fine day with 

 light cumuli followed and some small evaporating cirri. To- 

 wards evening the cuviuli enlarged, with continuous common 

 bases, and obscured the top of Skiddaw. I noticed several of 

 the green corniorants and wild ducks while I rowed on the lake 

 called Derwentwater. 



May 19. Sunday. (At Keswick.) — A fine day, we ascended 

 the mountain Skiddaw; on the summit whereof the cumuli 

 lodged. In the evening the clouds were high, but in greater 

 quantity. When on Skiddaw in the morning, I noticed cirro- 

 stratus in the distance at nearly the same altitude as we were ; 

 but it was hanging over level grounds. I also observed that When 

 the cumuli got a continuity of base with greater density, I'C- 

 coming citmulostratus they lodged on the mountains; but after- 

 wards simple cumuli became ragged and descended down by the 

 sides of the mountain in particular places. 



May 20. — Proceeded to Penrith in the afternoon, after sailing 

 on the lake. Clear day, cold in the wind, and hot in the sun, 

 with cumuli and light clouds in general. 



May 21. — I came to Manchester by Kendal. Fine morning 

 and cloudy night, with some rain. 



May 22. (At Manchester.) — Dry dusty clear day; ciiro- 

 slratus, &c. 



May 2;i — Went by way of Chester t« St. Asaph in North 

 Wales. Fine clear d^ty and night. 



May 24. — Travelled through Denbeigh and Llangollen to 

 Oswestry. Fine still spring morning, and very warm. Clouded 

 o\cr witli a breeze at night. 



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