46 DR DAVY ON AN UNUSUAL FALL OF RAIN 
In commencing, I have stated that the fall of rain in January was so much 
greater than the average for the month as to seem deserving of record; this is 
strictly correct; yet instances have occurred, since rain-gauges have been kept in 
the district, of even greater quantities having been registered for the same 
time. The following table, giving the months in which rain equal to, or exceed- 
ing 12 inches, has fallen at Ambleside and Coniston,—at the former since 1848, 
at the latter since 1837,—is illustrative of the fact; the rain-fall at Kendal and 
Wray Castle, for the same months, is added for the purpose of comparison :— 
TABLE III. 
Coniston. Ambleside. Wray Castle. 

Inches. Inches. 
October... 12°6 
Joly: pets) Arye 12:4 
September. . 12:9 
Octoheniiede. &: 13:1 
November. . 12-0 
December. . . 13°6 
October"... 14.0 
November. . 13:2 
Febroary "= 14:5 
December. . . 12:0 
J anary ot ae 13°5 
October ir! 12:0 
November. . . 12-2 
Janiiary choos | 13:3 


Januany, (29 ¢ 176 
February . . . 12:0 
December. . . 19:9 
January os ee. 12:0 
December. . . 15:3 



January . . . 12:2 


Such heavy falls of rain as those recorded in this table are perhaps more 
characteristic of localities exposed to the west and adjoining mountains than 
even the great yearly averages. Taking Edinburgh as an example of a place on 
the east coast, it would appear from the register kept by the late Mr Apre and 
his sons, from 1795 to the present time, that the greatest monthly fall there during 
the whole of that period was little more than six inches. This occurred five 
