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REPORT 1871. 



Table V. (continued). 



County. 



Station. 



Division XIX. 



Sutherland . . . 



If • • • 

 Caithness 



5> 



>J 



Orkney 



J) 



>> 



» 



» 



?j 



Shetland 



» 



Division XX. 

 Cork 



Golspie (Dunrobin Castle) . 



Cape Wrath 



Wick (Nosshead) 



Dunnethead 



Pentland Skerries 



Hoy (Graemsay East) . . . 



„ .( „ West) . . . 



j Shapinsay (Balfour Castle) . 



j Pomona (Sandwick) 



Sauda (Start Point) 



liorth Eonaldshay 



Sumburghead 



Bressay Lighthouse 



Height of Eain-gauge. 



Waterford 

 Clare . . . 



Division XXI. 



Queen's County- 

 King's County 



lEELAND. 



Cork (Royal Institution) 



Fermoy , 



Waterford (Newtown) . . , 

 KiUaloe 



Portarlington 



Tullamore 



Wicklow Bray (Fassaroe) 



Dublin Black Eock (Eockville) 



Division XXII. 

 Fermanagrh . . . . 



EnniskOIen (Florence Court) 



Armagh i Armagh Observatory 



Antrim 



Belfast (Queen's College) 

 (Linen Hall) . . . . 



Above 

 ground. 



ft. in. 





 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 



3 

 6 

 4 

 6 

 3 

 4 



6 



2 

 6 



3 4 

 3 4 

 4 



Above sea. 



feet. 



6 

 355? 

 127? 

 300? 



72? 



27? 



37? 



50 



78 



29? 



21? 

 265? 



60 



70 



60 

 123 



240 



235 



250 



90 



300 



208 



68 



12 



Mean 

 Annual 

 Eainfall, 

 1860-69. 



inches. 



27-692 

 39-371 

 24-699 

 25-401 

 28-763 

 39-007 

 32-693 

 32-408 

 38-853 

 31-371 

 31-015 

 26-454 

 36-488 



34-771 

 37-207 

 40-669 

 47-654 



36-8.57 

 27-938 

 41-822 

 27-090 



44-368 

 32-014 

 34-225 

 36-767 



Before accepting these decennial averages (1860-69) as data indicative of 

 the distribution of rain over the country, we have to offer a few prefatory 

 remarks. The difference between the amount collected by any two rain- 

 gauges depends on at least four separate and distinct conditions, three of 

 which must be ascertained and corrected for before the fourth can be accu- 

 rately determined. 



The conditions are : — (1) length of series of observations ; (2) correction for 

 secular change ; (3) height of gauges above ground. 



(1) Even if there were no other evidence in existence than the accompany- 



