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For the Table which follows I am indebted to Mr Samurt MarsHatt of 
Kendal, a gentleman of whose accuracy as an observer I have before made men- 
tion. The results it contains, expressive of the meteorological qualities of most 
importance, are applicable, with certain allowances, to the Lake District generally, 
and more especially as regards atmospheric temperature, and the prevailing 
























winds. 
TABLE II, 
Barometer. Thermometer. a es a Hee se 33 E 
Months. g2 ao é 
Maximum.|Minimum.| Mean. |Max.|Min.| Mean. er pasar ne: mie C8 Ae|o 
January, . .| 30:398 | 29-097 | 29853 | 52 | 28 | 40-468 | 46:6 | 58-7 | 40:4 | 391 | 6-514] 17 
February, .| 30°483 | 29-048 | 29°712 | 52 | 273! 40-946 | 53-7 | 34:3 | 40°5 | 39 | 4:022| 18 
March, . .| 30-201 | 28894 | 29-701 | 593| 24 | 44-113 | 63:1 | 39:5 | 43-7 | 41:8 | 5°617| 20: 
April, . .| 30°085 | 29°454 | 29°694 | 683] 24 | 43-416 | 82:3 | 346 | 45°6 | 41-3 | 3-900] 12 
May, . . .| 30-251 | 29°660 | 29-922 | 79 | 29 | 54532 | 104 | 35 | 60 | 54 | 0-:123| 1 
June,. . .| 30:099 | 29°578 | 29°854 | 80 | 39 | 59:216 | 97-3 | 46:8 | 62:3 | 563 | 2-024] 12 
July, . . «| 30:265 | 29°739 | 30-021 | 86 | 41 | 63-468 |104-4 | 49°8 | 66-2 | 601 | 1-757] 8 
August, . .| 30:258 | 29-219 | 29:837 | 83 | 39 | 61-089 | 93-4 | 47-8 | 62-7 | 58:1 | 5224] 10 
September, .| 30°139 | 29-279 | 29-677 | 66 | 35 | 53-733 | 83-6 | 42-4 | 54-4 | 521 | 7-343] 21 
October, . .| 29-965 | 28-936 | 29-566 | 71 | 19 | 48113 | 69-3 | 39°8 | 47-6 | 45°8 | 2-760] 12 
November. .| 30°566 | 28502 | 29-769 | 53}) 22 | 39-541 | 52-3 | 301 | 37-4 | 361 | 5-075| 17 
December, .| 30°459 | 28°756 | 29°552 | 54 | 11 | 33:008 | 31°3 | 30°5 | 38:4 | 23°6 | 3:931] 13° 
ieee, 30:264 | 29180 | 29763 | 67 | 28 | 48.470 | 73-4 | 387 | 49:9 | 45.6 |48-290)161 |S. a 30 








The following Table (No. III.) is given for the purpose of showing the great 
inequality of the fall of rain in different parts of the United Kingdom. For the 
observations from which it is framed, I am chiefly indebted to correspondents. 
Comparing these Tables, it would appear, that whilst one portion of the country 
was suffering from deficiency of rain, other parts of it had rain in excess, and 
both in a remarkable degree; for instance, London and the Lake District. It 
would appear, also, that over the country generally, even where for three months 
a drought prevailed, the yearly fall ofrain exceeded the average. At Seathwaite, 
in the upper part of Borrowdale, according to the observer there, Mr Joun Dixon, 
the excess, in that spot, so remarkable for its rain, exceeded that of the averag ei 
of the last fourteen years by 17 inches. 
Recurring to the drought as experienced in the Lake District,—a district, from 7m 
the nature of its declivities and the quality of its soil, peculiarly apt to suffer 
