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the more readily appear. It appears that the winds from 
the S.W. prevailed more than any other in the year 
1774; and next to the S.W. the N.E. But the S.W. was 
more frequent than the N.E. in the proportion of 1 26 
to 74. Of the winds from the four cardinal points the 
North was the moft frequent, and the Eaft the moll rare. 
In the three fummer months, June, July, and Auguft, 
there fell more rain than in the three of any other fea- 
fon. Of the 26,328 inches of rain which fell in the 
whole year, 13,842 fell in the winter half-year, con- 
fifting of the fix months of September, Odtober, Novem- 
ber, December, January, and February, and 12,486 in 
the fummer half-year, confifting of the fix months of 
March, April, May, June, July, and*Augufl. So that 
inch 
the winter’s rain exceeded the fummer’s by 1,336; that 
is, by little more than -^^th part of half the rain of the • 
whole year. September gave the greateft quantity of 
rain, and Odlober the leaft of any fingle month in the 
whole year. 
In colledling the rain of the feveral months, my rule, 
with refpedl to what hath fometimes fallen in the night 
between the laft day of one month and the firfl: of the 
next following, hath been this. When it appears by 
the journal, that it was fair on the laft day of the month, 
at the time of the afternoon obfervations, I have given 
the whole of the enfumg night’s rain to the new month ; 
but if it rained on the laft day of the month, at the time 
of the afternoon obfervation, I have divided the night’s 
B b 2 rain 
