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An Account of the Quantity of Rain, which lias 
fallen in the Ifland of Ma d e i r a. 
Anno 1747 
Inch. Dec 5 . 
January 
20 . f 2 f 
February 
485 
March 
4 - 339 
April 
.528 
May 
• 3?3 
June 
1 .321 
July 
.200 
Auguft 
.018 
September 
•H° 
Odtober 
.OIO 
November 
S .181 
December 
7 
I40 .8yi 
1748 1749 175-0 
Inch. Dec s . 
Inch. Dec s . 
Inch. Dec 5 * 
8. 600 
2 .097 
7 -ifo 
10. 95*8 
I .203 
1 .771 
y. 241 
- 93 * 
1 .123 
. 722 
•777 
.039 
5 - 2 9 ° 
1 .087 
. 420 
•113 
.226 
.176 
• 
O 
O 
.003 
.8lO 
.Sff 
1 .682 
3 *3°3 
I .fI 2 
6 .601 
2 .65-4 
3 .05*9 
5 Mi 
1 .5*00 
6 .527 
1 .882 
37 .5-08(22 .365-I27 ~3fi 
The years 1749 and 175*0, were fuch dry years, 
that the corn was deftroy*d, and the fruit-trees fuf- 
fer’d much, particularly the peach-trees, the fruit 
either falling to the gronnd, whilft green, or, if it 
remained longer on the tree, being full of white 
worms. 
LIX, 
