METEORIC RIVERS OR WATERFALLS. 



415 



tricts, by Sir Thomas Dick Lander, Bart." These tables are 

 numbered as in the book from which they are extracted. 



No. I. 



Extract of a Register kept at Inverness, by Matthew Adam, A. M., Rector of the 

 Inverness Academy. Height about thirty feet, and distance from the sea about 

 one mile. 



1829. 



Thermometer. 

 9, A. M. Direction of wind. 



Aug. 2, 61 C 



3, 



4, 



51 



W. 



N. 



N. 



Barometer. 

 9 A. M. 



29.94 



29.68 



29.65 



Obscure ; showers ; wind 

 and clouds from W., calm, 

 with rain, evening. 

 Obscure ; light wind and 

 heavy rain from N ; strong 

 wind, clouds and rain from 

 N. in the evening. 

 Obscure ; strong wind and 

 rain from N., nearly calm 

 in the evening. Memo- 

 randum, 2 inches of rain 

 fell here since the even- 

 ing of Sunday, the 2d inst. 



No. II. 



Journal kept by the Rev. William Rennie Manse, of Fochabers, for Aug. 1829. 

 Latitude 57.38. Move the sea, eighty feet. Observations made about eleven 

 o'clock, forenoon. Fochabers lies about twenty miles due east of Findhorn. 



3829. Barometer. 



Aug. 3, Heavy fall of rain all day; high wind, N.W. 29.1 



4, Heavy rain in morning, cleared up at 12, N.W. 29.5 



5, Serene and pleasant. N.W. 29.7 



Thermometer. 

 53 

 50 

 62 



No. III. 



Journal of weather kept by Mr. Menzies, at Gordon Castle, for August, 1829. 

 Gordon Castle is only a mile from Fochabers. 



1829. 



Aug. 2, W. Fair; wind moderate, warm all day. 



3, N. Heavy rain through the night and all 



the morning. 



4, N. E. Do. still continues. 



5, N. Fair; moderate breezes and sun. 



Thermometer. 

 8, A, M. 

 61 



51 



57 



Barometer. 



8, A. M. 



29.6 



29.3 



29.2 

 29.6 



