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ON THE METEOROLOGY OF IEELAND. 



nued to the present time ; the necessity for their omission is the 

 more to be regretted, as they appear to have been made with every 

 possible care. 



The positions of the several stations, together with the heights 

 (in feet) of the cisterns of the barometers above the mean sea level,* 

 are given in the annexed Table. They are shown in Plate i. 



POSITIONS OF THE METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS. 



* At Portarlington and Athy these heights have been taken from the Contour Maps 

 of the Ordnance Survey, and must, therefore, be considered as only approximate : at 

 all the other places they have been obtained by actual levelling from the nearest Ord- 

 nance bench-marks. 



