R A I 



INCHES. 



Hague 28.4 



Algiers 27.0 



Utrecht 24.7 



Lisle 24.0 



Dublin 22.2 



Edinburgh 22 



Berlin 20.6 



Petersburgh . . . 17.3 



Upsal 16.7 



Keswick, Cumberland, 7 years 67.0 



Kendal, Westmorland, 25 years 63.9 



Garsdale, Westmorland, 3 years .... 52.3 



[Lancaster, 20 years 39.7 



Townley, Lancashire, 15 years . . . . . 41.5 



Dover, 5 years . . , . . . . . 37.5 



Liverpool, 18 years ...,.,. 34.4 



Manchester, 33 years 36.1 



Bristol, 3 years ........ 29.2 



Chatsworth, Derbyshire, 15 years .... 27.8 



Barrowby, near Leeds, 6 years ..... 27.5 



Fyfield, Hampshire, 7 years 25.9 



Norwich, 13 years . . 25.5 



Lyndon, Rutlandshire, 21 years 24.3 



Near Oundle, Northamptonshire, 14 years . . 23.0 



South Lambeth, 9 years 22.7 



Dalton's mean for all England ..... 31.3 

 Dalton's mean, for rain and dew together, for all 



England 36.0 



M. Cotte's mean annual quantity of rain falling at 147 



places from N. lat. IK to 60 34.7 



The superficies of the globe consists of 170,981,012 square miles; sup- 

 posing therefore that the mean annual quantity of rain for the wholo 

 globe to be 34 inches, the quantity of rain falling annually will amount 

 225 



