CANAL, 21 o 



The mean quantity of rain falling at the follow- 

 ing places, in one year with another, is, 

 In Europe — at Hcerlaem 24 inches 



Delf27 

 Dort 40 

 Middleberg 33 

 Paris 20 

 Lyons 37 

 Rome 20 

 Padua 37| 

 Pisa 34 i 

 Ulrn 27 

 Berlin 19 J 

 Lancashire 40 

 Essex 19J r 



Manchester 33.55 before men- 

 tioned. 

 And in the United States : 

 In Charlotte. South Carolina, 47.66 inches* 

 In Williamsburgh, Virginia, 47.038 

 In Cambridge, Massachusetts, 35.396 

 In Rutland, Vermont, 41.197 



Making every allowance for defective or erro- 

 neous experiments, it is clear that there is more 

 rain as well as more evaporation in this country 

 than in Great Britain. That there is more evap- 

 oration, must be evident from the superior heat 



