228 Mr. Barker's Register , &c . 
At Selbourn, between Alton and Petersfield, in Hampshire, 
which lies at the NE foot of a steep hill, that rises an hundred 
yards perpendicular above it, they have half as much more 
rain as I have ; there was 48^- inches last year, as it is set 
down in the first page ; but they had 50^ inches in 1782, 
which is something more. But I was surprised to see, in the 
Supplement to the Gentleman's Magazine, page 1197, that 
Mr. Gough says there was 83^ inches of rain at Kendal last 
year. This is an astonishing quantity ; though it is a hilly 
country, it is almost four times my common year, and above 
double the greatest ; and I should have thought it enough, in 
latitude 54 0 , to have made the whole country a marsh. 
