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times—once in January, once in October, and once in each of the three summer 
months. The greatest amount of rain registered in any one year, that of 1795, 
was 36°61 inches; the average of the whole 24°55 inches. Stornoway, in the 
Island of Lewis, affords an example of a locality well exposed to the west, fully 
open to the sea, but out of the near influence of any mountains. There showers 
are frequent, but seldom so heavy as those where that influence is exerted. In 
January, the daily fall of rain registered there was as follows :— 

Est; 5 ; 0:20 inches. Oth, ‘ ; ... Inches. 
2d, be add ho. OY OMEF bs LOM. His OFS Laos lou 
3d, : ° ; OC; 2a XO, 5 : 0:23 
4th, ReLe AE) SSO Ga ie ane aay aril Vi 
6th, apih fisols ARGO Wee ppd nae DMO! sie. souls 
7th, aoe De We eo 0280) 
8th, ” : : Sicntherete 24th... : : 0:18 
9th, : ; : Ores Doth ee : ‘ 0:25 
10th. : : - byes PRs 26th, . ; i 0:35 
11th, : ; 0:02». :... Pf): ne ; ; 0°15 
12th, : : J Croge 28th, é ; 0°35 
13th, Na ieia'i bay. Othe der) easier 0-Ob 
14th, : , ‘ (Oh. 0 ae 30th, . ; : 0:62 
15th, Stila eka pent Be ee NT Tg 
16th, Yor dail suk FOkox hs, 
17th, ; ; ’ 0253 ee 5.43 inches. 
Exceptions there may be to the above remarks, even in localities where the 
average rain-fall is low,—exceptions which ought to be kept in mind, for the 
warding off of accidents by floods, but which unfortunately are commonly too 
soon forgotten after the event. One of the most remarkable that [am acquainted 
with took place at Scarborough in August 1857. In that year the total fall of 
rain registered was 29°982 inches, of which quantity 12-67 inches fell in August, 
and 9°50 inches during the night of the 6th and 7th of that month.* Another 
exceptional case is a fall of rain that occurred in London and its neighbourhood, 
on the 15th March 1851, amounting in a few hours to more than an inch, in London 
to 1:25 inch, at Lewisham to 1°725, which, for those localities, was designated by 
Mr GuaisHER as “ extraordinary,” and on that account communicated by him to 
the Royal Society.+ 
I have made mention of the mildness of the season since November. February, 
as to weather, was very much a repetition of January, the prevailing winds were 
the same, and rain was in excess ; here, at Lesketh How, 7:29 inches were registered. 
Now, in the first week of March, spring, judged of by the vegetation, is at least a 
month in advance; the gardens are gay with flowers. The same advance appears 
to begeneral. In a letter, with which I have been favoured by Sir James MATHESON, 
* The capacity of the rain-guage was limited to 9:50 inches ; itis stated to have been overflowing, 
so the amount registered was below the truth. See ‘ Twenty-Sixth Report of the Scarborough 
Philosophical and Archeological Society for 1857.” 
+ Proceedings of Royal Society, vol. vi., page 39, 
