200 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO l/OS. 



for our government could meet with none of it, until one day, rummaging all 

 their tinkerly treasure, that they had left behind them in Dublin, when they 

 were routed, by accident I met with one bag of 150 of those pieces. So that 

 the piece I sent you, although it is of no intrinsic value, it is a rarity ; and 

 had I thought it would have been acceptable, I would have sent you a specimen 

 of every sort that he had coined and re-coined here. 



I am, Sir, your very humble servant, 

 Dublin, Nov. 27, l6y6. Tho. Putland." 



This valuable curiosity has the same inscription on both sides, as the common 

 brass crowns; but there is this legend added upon the rim of it, Melioris Tes- 

 sera Fati Anno Regni Sexto. 



^4 Prospect of the fVeather, Winds, and Height of the Barometer, on the First 

 Day of every Month ; and of the whole Rain in every Month, in the Year 

 1703, and the beginning of 1704; observed at Towneley in Lancashire, by 

 Rd. Towneley, Esq. and at Upminster in Essex. By the Rev, fV. Derham, 

 F.R.S. N°297, p. J877. 



The registers of the winds and weather are omitted as useless ; on which 

 Mr. Derham adds the following observations. 



At Lisle, one year with another, the depth of the rain amounts to 22 inches 

 3 lines, Paris measure, or 23 inches 3 1. which makes about 234- inches English 

 or 244^. At Paris, one year with another, they amount to 20 inches 34^ lines, 

 Paris measure, which is near 22 inches English. But at Towneley, one year 

 with another, according to Mr. Towneley's computation formerly, the rains 

 amount to above 41 inches depth. And by taking eight other years, in which 

 the rain was observed both at Towneley and Upminster (viz. from 1696 to 

 1704) I find that all the 8 years rain at Towneley amounts to above 1700 1. 

 Troy, at Upminster 823 1. only. Which said sums being divided by 8, give 

 212 1. 4-, one year with another, at Towneley, and near 103 I. at Upminster. 

 Each of which sums being doubled, and making a decimal fraction of the last 

 figure, gives nearly the number of inches, which all the rain would have risen 

 to, if the earth had stagnated, viz. 424- inches at Towneley, and about 204 

 inches at Upminster. Wherefore the rain at Upminster is less than at Paris, 

 at Paris less than at Lisle, and at every one of the places much less than at 

 Towneley. 



Notwithstanding the great disproportion of rain between one place and 

 another, yet there is a great agreement between our barometers ; one rising 

 or falling when the other does, and that much or little, as the other does, 

 though not always exactly in the same proportion. 



