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It. Variation of the Magnetic Needle on the Coast ofKaramania. — Cap- 

 tain Beaufort has given the following measures of the Variation of the 

 Needle, in his Hydrographical Atlas, on the Coast of Karamania. 



15. Declination of the Magnetic Needle at Paramatta, New South 

 Wales. — The following Observations on the Declination of the Magnetic 

 Needle have been made at Paramatta, and communicated by Mr. Rum- 

 ker to Dr. Olbers. 



1 6. Magnetic Variation and Dip observed in the North Seas, by Cap- 

 tain Sabine. — The following Measures of the Variations and Dip of the 

 Needle were obtained by Captain Sabine. 



N. Lat. W. Long. 



Hammerfast . . 70° 40' 23° 45' E. 



Fairhaven .... 79 50 11 40 E. 



Drontheim ... 63 26 10 22 E. 



17. Scoresby's Observations on the Dip of the Needle. 



N. Lat. W. Long. Mean Dip. 



1823, March 29, Liverpool. 71° 33' 0" 



June 10, .. 71° 31' 14" 12° 7' 15" 78 3 6 



July 5, .. 71 38 17 37 79 9 



Quarterly Journal, No. 33. 



METEOROLOGY. 



18. Increase in the quantity of Rain. — M. Flauguergues of Viviers, who 

 has for 47 years carefully observed the quantity of rain that fell, has re- 

 marked, by taking periods of ten years, that the quantity of rain is con- 

 tinually increasing, and also the annual number of rainy and cloudy days, 

 not only at Viviers, but throughout the South of France. 



