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VIII. An Account of the Quantity of Ram 
fallen at MountVBay in Cornwall, and 
of the W lather in that Place : In a bet- 
ter from the Rev . William Borlafe, M. A . 
and F . R. S. to the Right Rev . Charles 
Ford Bifhop of Carlifle, F. R . S. 
My Lord, Ludgvan, 0 < 5 t. 31, 1763. 
Read Feb. 16, A T Carlifle, I find by your Lord- 
*764. Flip’s note, there fell fix inches 
and half of rain in the months of June and J ul y 
laF. In Mount s-Bay Cornwall, according to my 
ombrometer there fell 
In: Tenths Parts 
In June — - — - 2 — 6 — _L 1 in ^ es tenths P arts 
In July 4 — 3--0 j ' 9 -r 
So that the rain in this part of Cornwall exceeded 
that at Carlifle almoF half an inch. I could wifh the 
gentleman at Carlifle would continue his obfervations, 
adding thereto a journal of Farenheidt’s thermometer, 
and that we had another equally curious at Cathnefs, 
at leaF Aberdeen. 
It is fome amufement to compare the journal of the 
weather in one part with the accounts in the papers 
of Forms, heats, and drought, and their contraries, 
in another. 
On the 1 1 th of AuguF, there was at Bruffels a 
mold dreadful Form of thunder, lightning, and hail ; 
at Ludgvan only miFy-rain and Flowers. 
On the 19th of the fame month, when one of 
the moF violent hurricanes ever known fcourged fome 
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