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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



CHAP. 



of England the rainfall may be averaged at 20 inches, while on the 

 coasts of Wales it is from 30 to 60 inches, and amidst the high 

 mountains about Snowdon and Cader Idris, twice as much has been 

 collected in a year a . 



The distribution of rain in the different months may be judged 

 of by the Register kept with great exactness at the E/adcliffe 

 Observatory in Oxford. Taking five years, from 1861 to 1865, we 

 find the records for the several months to be much more nearly 

 equal than is usual in England : 



Prevalent Winds. During the same period rain came to us with 

 the different winds in the following proportions : 



a See Symons's British "Rainfall, 1868. The maximum in Wales in 1858 was 

 1 1 5 1 TO ir ches, on Sno \vdon. 



