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is unnecessary to dwell further upon it. We now proceed to the second 

 part of our investigation, namely, to consider the distribution of the rain- 

 fall of the last decade, during which we have nearly four hundred perfect 

 sets of observations. As each set of observations comprises more than a 

 thousand entries, and the following Table contains the result of nearly half a 

 million observations, it is probable that it contains some slight percentage of 

 error, but we have no suspicdon of the existence of any which appreciably 

 affect the results. 



The head-lines of the following Table sufficiently explain its contents. 



Table Y. — Mean Rainfall at 325 Stations during the ten years 1860-69. 



County. 



Station. 



Height of Rain-gauge. 



Above 

 ground. 



Above sea. 



Mean 

 Annual 

 Eainfall, 

 1860-69. 



Division I. 

 Middlesex . . . 



Division II. 



Surrey 



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jj 



J) 



>> 



Kent 



>> 



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J) 



Sussex 



> 



>> 



J) 



J! 



•7 



>> 



>> 



J> 



Hampshire . . . 



>» • • • 



>j . . . 



„ . . , 



„ . . . 



Berkshire . . . 



» . . . 



Division III. 

 Herts 



Camden Town 



Weybridge Heath 



Croydon (Tanfield Lodge) 

 „ (Waldi-onhurst). . 



Wimbledon 



Kew Observatory 



Hythe (Horton Park) .... 



Tunbridge 



Maidstone (Linton Park) 



,, (Hunton Court) 

 West Thorney [Emsworth] 

 Chichester Museum .... 



„ (Shopwyke) . . 



„ (West Dean) . . 



(Chilgrove) 



Arundel ('Dale Park) .... 

 Hastings (High Wickham) 

 Maresfield Rectory 



„ (Forest Lodge) 

 Isle of Wight (Osborne) 

 Fareham (North Brook). . 



Peter sfield (Liss) 



Selbome (The Wakes) . . 



Aldershot 



Reading (Englefield) .... 

 Long Wittenham 



Bayfordbury 



St. Albans (Gorhambury) 



ft. in. 



6 



6 



8 

 35 



3 



1 3 

 1 4 

 1 

 6 

 6 

 8 



6 



1 2 



1 6 



6 

 3 5 



2 



1 3 

 1 2 

 8 

 2 



4 

 2 9 



feet. 



100 



150 

 155 

 237 

 160 



19 

 350 



71 

 296 



80 



10? 



50 



61 

 250 

 284 

 316 

 212 

 250 

 259 

 172 



26? 



250 



inches. 



25-681 



25-051 

 26-333 

 24-388 

 23-476 

 23-282 

 32-677 

 28-258 

 27-559 

 25-998 

 26-875 

 29-026 

 29-194 

 37-082 

 33-224 

 33-732 

 26-373 

 32-199 

 31-479 

 30-725 

 33-906 

 38-033 

 34-427 

 27-036 

 25-726 

 27-379 



25011 



27-849 



