252 Influence of the Moon s Declination [May, 



hand, whoever receives the bearer with kindness, shall be rewarded 

 with abundant harvests, and increase of subjects, and whithersoever he 

 may go and settle, prosperity shall attend him, whether on the coast 

 of the Island of Palo P&cha or any other place by sea or by land. 

 Oh Lord of lords and Helper of helpers, the most wise God." 



II. — Comparison of the Heights of the Barometer, with the Distance of 

 the Moon from the Celestial Equator. By the Rev. R. Everest. 



[See Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 6th May, 1835.] 

 In my last paper, I shewed, that on an average of ten rainy sea- 

 sons, the daily amount of Rain -fall diminished, as the declination of 

 the moon increased, until it reached between 10° and 15°; but that 

 after that distance, the reverse took place, and the amount of Rain- 

 fall increased as the declination increased. The general average of 

 the 10 years for every 5° distance from the Equator gave the following 

 results : 



Declination o 5 10 15 20°25 from the Equator. 

 Inches of Rain -m -m -256 -259 -347 



H-l-H 



It was but natural to suppose, that the height of the Barometer 

 would vary in a similar manner, or rather the reverse, i. e. as the 

 one increased, the other would diminish, and vice versa — with this 

 expectation, I made a Table of the heights of the Barometer, as I 

 had before done of the Rain-fall. The 4 p. m. observations were 

 selected from the Registers, as being nearest the time of noon at 

 Greenwich, when the declination of the moon was taken ; but I did 

 not at first obtain results so satisfactory as I had expected. On takin°- 

 the general average of the 10 years, a considerable depression (as 

 much as '040 in.) appeared, when the declination was greater than 20°; 

 but from that to the equator, the heights were irregular, and nearly 

 on a level. But in examining the Registers, for the purpose of making 

 out the tables, I could not help observing, that though all the greatest 

 depressions coincided (or nearly so) with the times of the moon's 

 maximum declination, yet that many of the greatest elevations held 

 a similar situation. The inference of course was, that a principle of 

 compensation was somehow or other at work. I now became ac- 

 quainted with the opinion of an eminent philosopher, that any eleva- 

 tion of the barometer in southern latitudes mu^t have the effect of 

 producing an equal depression in a corresponding northern latitude. 

 If we only generalize this assertion a little, and say, " that any de- 



