393 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



Summary of the Slate of the Barometer, #c, in Kendal, 1833. 



The annual mean of the barometer is very near the average of 

 the last 11 years, and the mean temperature under that of the same 

 period. The quantity of rain is within an inch of the average for 

 the preceding 1 1 years, this average being 56309 inches. In four 

 years only out of the preceding 11 was there less than in 1833, 

 viz. 1826, 1828, 1829, and 1832. The year 1826 was by far the 

 driest year, both as regards the number of rainy days and the 

 quantity of rain measured, the quantity being but 43-060 inches. 

 In 1822, 1823 and 1824, we had 62-726, 62-749 and 62-762 re- 

 spectively. In 1823 there were 198 rainy days, and in 1826, 147. 

 But in the period alluded to there has been no year, except 18i ; 3 

 and 1830 (in which 194 wet days occurred), equal to 1833 in the 

 number of rainy days. Till the middle of October, or even the 

 beginning of November, we had much less than our usual quantity 

 of rain, since which time there has been almost continued rain, for 

 out of the 61 days in November and December, we had 4K rainy 

 days, 27 of which occurred in December. In these two months, it 

 will be observed, we had 21-657 inches, a quantity equalling, if not 

 exceeding, the annual amount which falls in the neighbourhood of 

 the metropolis. 



During the year 1833, the quantity of rain which fell at Birk- 

 lands, the residence of E.W. Wakefield, has been measured, with 

 an account of which he has obligingly furnished me. The situation 

 of Birklands is about a mile from the .site of my rain-gauge, and 

 the elevation above it, as measured by the barometer, is 30 yards, 

 and yet, from this variation in the level of the two places, there have 

 been 3-999 inches less rain at Birklands than at Kendal. This cir- 

 cumstance proves, what is already weil known, that a less quantity 

 falls in high situations than in the adjacent valleys. Taking, how- 

 ever, the monthly quantities at each place, it does not always hap- 

 pen that a less quantity of rain falls at Birklands than at Kendal ; 

 i.e. in January, April, May, July, August, and September, (6 



