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fell ; in Cornwall also, and in Devon, where ordinarily water in abundance 

 runs to waste, great inconvenience and loss arose from its deficiency. The 

 most singular case was that of the Pentland Hills and the south-east of Scot- 

 land generally, where the drought was equally severe, but in less than a 

 week the rivers rose from almost the lowest point previously known, to a 

 higher level than had been known for eighteen years. The Edinburgh 

 Water- works reservoirs had been so empty that the city was put on short 

 supply ; the floods of October 22-24 came and almost filled them ; the rivers 

 rose, and carried away farm-produce, buildings and bridges ; and the rain- 

 returns for that district eventually show a yearly total nearly as much above- 

 the average as our English returns are below it. 



Explanation of Arrangement ami Symbols used in the following List. 



The stations are classed primarily into countries, secondarily into counties 

 (which are in alphabetical order) ; and in each county the stations are ar- 

 ranged alphabetically under their own name, if a well-known one, as " Want- 

 age ;" if the place is not one generally known, they are placed under that 

 of the nearest well-known name : for example, " Tiverton (Hayne)," H ayne 

 being the absolute place of observation, and being near to Tiverton. When 

 a station is on the edge of a county, and the most prominent adjacent town 

 is in the next county, the station is classed under its own name, and that of 

 the town is in brackets : thus, " Stotfold [Baldock]." The column headed 

 " Elevation " states the height of the gauge above mean sea-level. An 

 asterisk (*) prefixed to a station shows that the gauge was tested by 

 Mr. Symons before it was used ; a dagger (f), that it has been visited, tested, 

 and its position examined. The letters B.A. indicate its having been 

 supplied out of the grants made by the British Association. The column 

 headed " Observer" is added principally as a means of identifying the returns 

 when there are two or more in the same place. The column headed 

 " Period" states the years of which the monthly fall has been collected; the 

 letters C and T denote respectively the commencement and termination of 

 the register ; in all other cases there may be, or are, additional years con- 

 stantly accruing. A bar between the date thus, 1846-52, shows that every 

 year from 1846 to 1852 is in hand ; a bar at the end thus, 1851-, shows 

 that every year from 1851 to the present is in hand, and that the register is 

 still kept up. When no date is given, no observations have been obtained. 

 When a date is given in parenthesis (1840-8), it indicates the date during 

 which I behove it to have been at work. 



ENGLAND. 



Bedfordshire. 



Station. 



Ampthill 



Bedford (Britannia Farm) 

 (Harpur Street)... 



(Observatory) 



(Cardington Staff gauge) 



(Obs. gauge) , 



(36 ft. + ground) ... 



(Sharnbrook) 



Potton (Sutton Park) 



Stotfold [Baldock] 



Woburn (Aspley) , 



Eleva- 

 tion. 



112 



IOO 

 IOO 



136 



220 

 460 



Observer. 



W. S. Slinn, Esq, 

 Mr. T. Bowick... 



Dr. Barker 



Admiral Smyth... 

 Mr. M'Laren 



B. S. Stedman.Esq. 

 Sir J. M. Burgoyne 

 W. Denne, Esq. .., 

 Rev. G. W. Mahon. 



Period. 



C 1865- 

 C 1865- 



C1851- 



1831, 1833-38 

 C 1846- 



C 1848- 

 C 1848- 



C 1864- 



1864- 



C 1856- 



