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the fall in a year is about 20 inches. In 1843, they had 

 but six days of rain in that year and two months of the 

 following year; and in the next four months of 1844, only 

 three, making nine days only in eighteen months on which 

 rain fell. Who would not therefore prefer the favoured land 

 in which we live to either of these districts ? 



The quantity of rain in these mountainous districts appears 

 from Dr. Miller's observations, to increase as we ascend the 

 eminences, until w€ attain the height of 2,000 feet above the 

 level of the sea, when it begins to diminish. In any one 

 locality, if several guages are placed at different altitudes, 

 the lowest almost invariably registers the greatest quantity. 

 In the Lake District, Scafell Pike, which is the highest land 

 in England, and 3,208 feet above the sea-level, registered in 

 1847, 128 inches; and Sprinkling Tarn, 1961 feet high, 207 

 inches. At the latter place, the largest quantity has been 

 registered that has been yet taken in any situation. There 

 are a few exceptions to these facts, however, in these very 

 localities. 



The result of these observations shows that at least 60 

 inches more rain are deposited in England than we were 

 previously aware of; that 150 inches sometimes descend in 

 the Lake District in a year — more than falls in most of the 

 Tropics with which we are acquainted, and sufficient to 

 drown two of the tallest men in Great Britain, standing one 

 on the top of the other. They have further informed us of 

 the fact, that six-and-a-half perpendicular inches of water 

 are sometimes precipitated from the atmosphere in twenty- 

 four hours, and ten inches in forty-eight hours, a quantity 

 which would be thought large for any two consecutive months 

 in most parts of England. The almost incredible depth of 

 20 inches occasionally in a single month — a fall nearly 

 equal to the calculated yearly average for all other parts of 



