the Annual Evaporation at Liverpool, Sec. 259 
In the third inftance, the diffolved water may be 
either flowly precipitated and fall in drizzling rain, or it 
may be more powerfully difcharged in brilk rain; or 
there may be partial and fudden precipitations from par- 
ticular regions, while other parts of the atmofphere ftill 
retain their water in a ftate of perfect folution. Heavy 
thunder-fhowers are the mold remarkable inftances of 
partial, fudden, and copious precipitations. 
Liverpool, Nov. 20, 1776. 
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