erst) 
X.—On an Unusual Drought in the Lake District in 1859. By Joun Davy, M.D., 
F.R.S. Lond. & Edin., &c. 
: (Read 17th April 1860.) 
In a former communication to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, I gave an 
: account of an unusual fall of rain in the Lake District in the month of January 
last year. That occurrence was followed by its opposite in May, June, and July; 
not for a long period, not since 1826, has the district suffered more from want of 
water than in those months. 
This drought is best shown by the following table, in which will be found the 
rain-fall for the several months of the year at five different places, only a few 
miles remote from each other. The table will also show the remarkable contrast 
as to excess and deficiency of rain during the period. It may be premised, that 
at Ambleside, where the drought appears to have been felt as much as anywhere, 
the ordinary fall of rain for the months in question is about three times as great ; 
thus for May (our driest month of the twelve), taking the average of the preceding 
eleven years, it is 2°37 inches, for June 4°22 inches, for July 5-27 inches, making a 
total of 12°36 inches, against 4°54 inches of the months of drought. 



















TABLE I. 
Honite, | avin. — |Meat tows | sick, | High Clam above [Botan 
Inches. a Inches. mee Inches. ee Inches, ne 
January,. .| 6-514 17 14:82 19 11-168 21 10:95 19 
February, .| 4:°022 | 18 G29 22 5214 | 20 6:29 21 
er. | «5617 | 20 | 1032 | 23 | 9:612 |. 21 8-78 | 238 
mo, . .| 3900 | 12 544 | 19) 4868 | 13 b27-41 16 
ei. |  0:123 1 0-55 4 0-206 2 0:23 5 
ee | 2024. | 12 1:91 | 18 | 2-446 9 2°81 | 14 
Messi. «| 1757 8 2:08 | 10 | 2-866 7 2:55 9 
August, . .| 5224 | 10 545 | 12 | 5467 | 12 6-55 | 165 
September, .| 7°343 | 21 11:36 | 20 | 9:346 | 20 11:16 | 22 
October,. .| 2°760 | 12 689 | 14 | 3-834 | 10 4:99 | 14 
November, .| 5:075 | 17 | 10:08 | 16 6595 | 13 8-61 | 17 
December, .| 3:931 | 13 7-039). AGeelmecdot. ae ls 659 | 16 




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43°290 | 161 84:12 | 181 | 66:883 | 163 75°08 | 191 



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