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Mr. Barker's Register , &c. 
No. VII. 
No. VIII. 
One month. 
Abstract. 
Inches. 
1774 September 3 
7>93° 
to Oct. 2 
0,34° 
8,270 
1770 November 6 
7,818 
to Dec. 5 
0,410 
8,228 
1773 May - - 
6,843 
1736 July 
6,550 
•737 August 
6,300 
1782 April 
6,125 
1757 August 
6,057 
1782 May 
5,722 
1775 September 
5,670 
1763 July - - 
5,657 
•743 Juty - - 
5,230 
1776 August 
5,200 
1782 September 
5,151 
1792 August 16 
2,762 
to Sept. 15 
2,346 
5,108 
Inches. 
Three years time 
Three calendar years, 1773, 
1774, and 1775 - 
Seventeen months 
Twelve months 
Nine months 
Six months 
Three months - 
One month 
IOI »455 
96,310 
56,277 
39>724 
30,727 
24,304 
• 5»477 
8,270 
The year 1792 was a very wet one, and by many ima- 
gined to exceed all others, but that does not appear to be 
fact ; the wet of last year is fresh in memory, that of 
former years is more forgotten. It might seem the wetter, 
because the autumn of 1791 was wet, so that there was a 
long continuance of it ; and perhaps there might be more 
rain in some other places than here, as we had no great thun- 
der storms all the summer at this place, which they had in 
several parts, some not many miles off. The wettest years 
