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p, S. — A table for ascertaining the relative quantity of rain 

 cav"-ht at different heights, is much wanted and would prove of 

 great use to the meteorologist. The publication of accurate ob- 

 ser.ations on the quantity of rain which has fallen in various places 

 a: no great distance from each other, vvili prove serviceable to 

 engineers as well as philosophers ; and it will prol)ably be found 

 that rain for many months will be comparatively local ; for I had 

 occasion to obseKe that in Northamptonshire and Leicestcrshirf, 

 the quantity was not by some inches so great as in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London, within the last six months ; so much so as 

 to cause an evident defalcation iu the supply to mills and inland 

 navigations in those counties. 



1^ The greater part of my readers must have heard of the 

 afflicting loss sustained by my'much respected friend Mr. Gary 

 of the Strand, to whom 1 have been indebted for the monthly 

 meteorologicil table ever since the commencement of The Phi- 

 losophical Magazine. I am sorry to have to announce such a 

 reason for its absence in the present number. A. T. 



