[ ^97 ] 
1776 . 
From July 6th to i6ch 
July i6th to 29th 
July 29th to Aur. loth 
Sept. 9th both bottles had 
’run over. 
Sept. 9th to 30th 
17th both bottles 
had run over. 
Odl. 17th to 22d 
Ot£t. 2 2d to 29th 
Nov. 20, both bottles 
were broken by the frofl. 
Bochyraidr. 
Grains Inches. 
5080 = 0,709 
^5^54 = 2,185 
4370 = 0,610 
23167 = 5,234 
5353 = 0,747 
9179 =r 1,281 
8,766 
ThetopofRennig, 
Grains. Inches. 
4643 = 0,648 
15217 = 2,124 
4698 = 0,656 
17648 = *,464 
6336 = 0,885 
9944 = 1,588 
8,165 
NOTE. 
It may not be improper to Tubjoin to the foregoing actount, 
that, in the places where it was firft obferved, that a different 
quantity of rain would be colletEfed, according, as the rain-gages 
were placed above or below the tops of the neighbouring build- 
ings, the rain gage below the top of the houfe, into which the 
greater quantity of rain had for feveral years been found to fall, 
was above fifteen feet above the level of the other rain-gage, 
which in another part of London was placed above the top of 
the houfe, and into which the lefler quantity always fell. This 
difference therefore does not, as Mr. Barrington juftly remarks, 
depend upon the greater quantity of atmofphere, through which 
the rain defeends ; though this has been fuppofed by fome, who 
have thence concluded, that this appearance might readily be 
folved by the accumulation of more drops, in a defeent through 
a greater depth of atmofphere. W. H. 
Q.q . 
« 
Voi. LXI. 
XXXVI. ^ 
