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for me by the Society, as well as my illuftrious Friend, 
Dr. Newton^ Her Majefties very ingenious and learned * 
Envoy at Florence^ and a very laCeful Member of this 
Society. 
I- The firft thing that in thefe Rain- Tables reprefents 
it felf to our view, is, That the Rains for the mold 
part are more frequent at Upmnjier than either at 
Zurich or Fifa 5 I mean We have more Rainy Days than 
They. But yet 
2. The Rains in both thefe Places are much greater in 
Quantity, in the whole Year, and in fome Months, ef- 
pecially the Autumnal and Winter Months, than our 
Rains are at ZJpmnJier, Alay, June, and July, and a great 
part of Auguji in 1707. feem to have been very dry, and 
I fuppofe fearching Months at Pifa, as in fome meafure 
fome of them were here : And in that time lefs Rain 
fell there than here. But the following Autumnal Months 
made, at Pifa, fufficient amends, either by the great quan- 
tity that fell at a time, I fuppofe in Thunder, and fuch 
like hafty large Showers 5 or elfe by the Quantity and 
Frequency both. What a prodigious Qpantity was that, 
for inftance, of above 32 pounds on Augufl 19 > ('if it all 
fell on that, and not fome on the preceding days.) But 
vve find very large Quantities at a time to have fallen on 
divers Days, where it is maniferi: the Rain was weighed 
every Day, vi%. 10 Pound, 9 Pound, and other large 
Quantities for feveral Days together, in the cooler autum- 
nal Months. But as the Weather groweth warmer, I 
imagine their Rains at Pifa are fewer 5 and what falletb, 
falJeth in large quantities. For which reafon the quanti- 
ty of Rain in the Spring-months of March, April, and 
May 1708. foften times dripping Months in is- 
nearly the fame both at Pif^ and Vpminfer, 
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