46 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
all, with the exception of Culloden, being taken from the 
“Daily Weather Reports” of the Meteorological Office, and 
TABLE V. 
Stornoway, ‘ : : ; ; ; 38°9 
Wick, ; : ; ; ; : : 37°8 
Culloden (1841-80), . : ; : ‘ 38°0 
Nairn, : : : : : ‘ : ; Ye | 
Aberdeen, . ’ ; ; : : 7 F ane 
Leith, ; : : : ; . ; : 39°5 
York, f : : , : : ; F 38 4 
Cambridge, : : : - : : 38°7 
Royal Observatory, . ; , : ‘ : 39°4 
applying to the fifteen years 1871 to 1885. How un- 
important appears to be the practical effect of difference of 
latitude, for one may expect to find a rather warmer winter 
in the Hebrides than at Cambridge or York! The north of 
Scotland is frequently unaffected by the long spells of severe 
Continental or European frost, of which the past winter has 
furnished a remarkable example. How much this fortunate 
exemption may be attributed to oceanic currents, and how 
much to the proximity of cyclones and the consequent 
prevalence of westerly or south-westerly winds, has yet to 
be determined. 
RAINFALL. 
No element of a climate is more dependent on the natural 
configuration of a locality than rainfall. A writer in 1772? 
correctly attributes the low rainfall of the immediate. vicinity 
of the Spa to the screen of hilly country lying to the west. 
“Tt is worth while remarking,” he says, “that the western 
mountains make the weather alternately foul and fair on the 
east and west borders of them, in some measure similar to 
the monsoons on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. The 
west and south-west winds blow most frequently, during 
which it generally rains on the west coast and is fair weather 
on this side of the hills, or at most there are only slight 
occasional showers. On the other hand, the east wind 
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