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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



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on the 2d, and on the 3d got into the s. vv., where it remained almost all the 

 rest of the month. 



The following table shows the quantity of rain that fell with each wind in each 

 month in the whole year. It appears, that the s. w. gave more than ^ of the 

 rain of the whole year, which seems not to have been altogether owing to the 

 wet quality of that wind, but in great measure to the greater length of time it 

 blew than any other. The numbers at the bottom of the table show the pro- 

 portional wetness of each wind on the whole. They are made from the numbers 

 in the last horizontal row but one of this table, compared with the numbers in 

 the last horizontal row of tab. 1. For the wetness of each wind is in proportion 

 as the quantity of rain it gave in the whole year directly, and the number of 

 days it blew inversely. The former is shown by the numbers in the last row but 

 one of tab. 7, and the latter by those in the last row of tab. 1. It appears that 

 the s. wind was the driest of all, the s. w. the wettest, and the w. the next 

 wettest. 



TABLE VII. 

 Showing tlie quantities of rain which fell severally with each wind in every montli and in 



the whole year. 



An 8th table was added by Dr. H. for trial of the moon's influence, in which 

 is shown the state of the weather on the several quarters of the moon, in all the 

 months of the year; from which the following inferences are drawn. From this 

 table it appears that, of g2 changes of weather in the whole year, 46 fell on 

 the days of the moon's pretended influence. And rejecting, of these changes, 

 all that were reversed within 24 hours, of 53 that remain in all, 27 fell on the 

 days of lunar influence. And if from these again we reject the octantal days, 

 confining the moon's influence to the days of syzygy and quadrature, there still 

 remain 14 of the 53 for these days. Of the new moons, 4 only were attended 

 with a change of weather, and of the full moons 3 ; namely, the new moons of 



