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XXVII. A Letter from Thomas Barker, 
Lfq\ of Lyndon in Rutlandrhire, to James 
Weft, Lfq\ Pref R, S» concerning Ob- 
fervations of the i^uantities of Rain falleJt 
at that Plojce for feveral Tears^. 
S I 
Lyndon, March 22, 17710 
Read April the Other fide is the quantity of 
» 77 i* rain, which has fallen at Lyndon in 
Rutland, fince May 1736, with a table of the mean 
rain in the firfi; four or five years, and every ten years 
fince ; which thews that there has been more rain in 
the latter part of this period, than in the former. 
But the leaft four years were from 1740 to 43, little 
more than i6f inches a year j and the greatefi: four 
years from 1767 to 70, above 25I inches a year. 
For comparing of dry feafons and wet ones, I have 
made a table of the three driefi: months, the three 
driefi: two months, three, four, &c. to twelve fuc- 
ceflive months ; and a like table of wet ones : but 
as the years 1763, 68, 70, exceeded any others, I 
have made another like table of them. There arc 
no three months come up to the lafi; quarter of 1770, 
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