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I. An Account of the Rain which fell every Year at Up- 
minder in EfTex, the lafi Eighteen Years , with Y K e~ 
marks upon that of the Year 1 7 14. By W. Derham, 
F. S. Aijo a Comparifon cf what has been obfer- 
Vcd of that kind at Paris, by M. De la Hire. 
I A -S T Year having been Co remarkably Dry, that 
j bonds hereabouts are for the mod part dry, and the 
Springs generally either very low or quite failing, I had 
the Curiofity to make an Extra# ( out of my Regifters of 
the Weather, &c . ) of the Quantity of Rain which fell at Up- 
minfter the laft iS Years. The Particulars of which, every 
Year, may be feen in the following Table. In one Column 
of which, the Weight of the Rain in Pounds Troy and Cen- 
tefimals of Pounds, maybe feen s in the other, the Depth 
of it in Inches and Centefimals of Inches, or what Height 
it would have been, had it not been imbibed by the Earth, 
or leflened by Exhalations, but been fuffered to have flag- 
nated on the Ground. 
Among the Dry Years , 1704 was complained of for one; 
which I remember the News-Papers reported to have been 
fo confiderable at Venice , that they were forced to fetch 
their Water in Barks five Leagues off, as far as the Brent a ; fo 
that publick Prayers were put up for Rain. Yet we 
may obferve that feveral other Years were drier than that 
with us at Upminjler. But among them all, none compa- 
rable to the laft Year 1714. In which the whole Quantity 
of Rain was no more than 55 l 95 Hundredths, or 11 
Inches 19 Hundredths; whereas the lead Quantity of any 
of the preceding 18 Year;, exceeded ly Inches in Depth. 
What Effe&s this Drought hath had in the Bodies of 
Animals, I leave others to judge- It is well known how 
contagious and fatal a Diftemper hath raged among, not 
only 
