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method, given in the appendix to M. De Moivre’s 
Mifcellanea Analytic # , it may be transformed to an- 
other, converging quicker; which method is applied 
to this very ieries, in folio 362 of the Mathematical 
Repofitory , Vol. I. 
XLI. A Letter from John Lining, M D. of 
Charles-Town, Soutli-Carolina, to the Rev . 
Thomas Birch, D. D. Seer. R. S. concern- 
ing the Quantity of Rain fallen there from 
January 1738, to December 1752. 
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Rev. Sir South Carolina, Charles-Town, April 
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H E favourable reception, which 
my former papers met with from 
the Royal Society, encourages me to fend you a table 
of the quantity of rain, which fell in Charles-Town 
for thefe 1 y years laft pad ; which, if continued for 
half a century, might be of ufe, in difeovering to us 
the changes made in a climate, by clearing the land 
of its woods. Tho’ I formerly fent a table of the 
rain from 1738 to 1745 inclulive, which is publifh’d 
in N° 487 of the Philofophical Tranjaffiom ; yet, as 
I thought it would be more convenient to bring the 
whole into one view, I have not only added to this 
table the rain of thofe years, but have likewife diflin- 
guifhed the quantity which fell in the feveral feafons. 
In this table I continued the old ftile to the firft of 
kft February, that the mean quantity, in each month,, 
and in the different feafons, might be given exadly. 
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