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months out of the 12,) more rain was measured in each of these 

 months at Birklands than at Kendal. In comparing the quantity 

 taken at each place, it appears that when large quantities of rain 

 fall, the difference is greater than when small ones are measured. 

 In several instances, especially when the quantity is small, E. W. 

 Wakefield takes more than I do in Kendal ; but in comparing one 

 month after another, it appears that the daily quantity is less at 

 Birklands than at Kendal. The apparent discrepancy between the 

 two accounts which sometimes occurs in the daily quantity of rain 

 taken, under the same circumstances, arises, I am inclined to think, 

 from our measuring the quantity at ditferent hours, probably when 

 heavy rain is falling, by which means, he may appear to take a 

 larger than I have done on any particular day, from including one 

 or even two hours more rain. In the six months in which the rain 

 taken at Birklands exceeds that at Kendal, the weather was less 

 windy ; but 1 am not sure that this circumstance will satisfactorily 

 account for the increased quantity. In the wettest month, December, 

 the quantity measured at Birklands was 12*390 inches, or nearly 

 two inches less than at Kendal, and in November 6*308, or above 

 one inch less. These were by far the most windy and boisterous 

 months in the year, as the dreadful loss of shipping on our coasts 

 lamentably proves. 



As 1 am aware that considerable interest exists in different parts 

 of the kingdom among scientific men respecting the meteorology 

 of Kendal, I annex an account of the quantity of rain, which I have 

 carefully measured during the last 12 years, the average of which 

 period may be fairly considered as the mean quantity which falls in 

 Kendal. In 1822 there were measured 62-726 inches, 

 j 823 . — 62-74-9 



1824 — — 62-T62 



1825 5y973 



1826 43 060 



1827 58006 



1825 . 54-816 



1829 46-173 



1830 58-030 



1831 61-416 



1832 .19-688 



1833 5.5-418 



the average of which is 56-235 inches. On reviewing the past year, 

 1 may remark, that January was an unusually dry month, five days 

 of which only were wet ones. February was a very wet one. The 

 next three months were particularly dry, and the weather genial. 

 The greater part of June was wet, but July, August, September, 

 and the early part of October, were dry, and we had no frost 

 from the 30th of March to the 9th of October. The remaining part 

 of October, and nearly the whole of November and December, mere 

 extremely wet. We have not had many appearances of the aurora 

 tforealia during the year. The first appearance of it was on the 

 12th of September. In that and the following month it was re- 

 peatedly seen, and once in December. Samull Marshall. 

 Kendal, 19th 2nd Month, 1834. 



