LETTER LX. 



To the same. 



N reading Dr. Huxam's " Observationes de 

 Aere," &c., written at Plymouth, I find by 

 those curious and accurate remarks, which 

 contain an account of the weather from the 

 year 1727 to the year 1748 inclusive, that 

 though there is frequent rain in that district 

 of Devonshire, yet the quantity falling is not 

 great ; and that some years it has been very small : for in 

 1731 the rain measured only 17.266 in.; and in 1741, 

 20.354 in.; and again, in 1743, only 20.908 in. Places 

 near the sea have frequent scuds, that keep the atmosphere 

 moist, yet do not reach far up into the country ; making thus 

 the maritime situations appear wet, when the rain is not 

 considerable. In the wettest years at Plymouth the doctor 

 measured only once 36; and again once, viz., 1734, 37.114 

 in. a quantity of rain that has twice been exceeded at 

 Selborne in the short period of my observations. Dr. Huxam 



