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LIEUT.-COLXDNEL SYKES’S DISCUSSION OF METEOROLOGICAL 
for the years 1845, 1846, 1847 and 1848, as they confirm, from European localities, 
the facts I have stated respecting the great discrepancies in the fall of rain at proxi- 
mate stations. 
Fall of Rain in the Lake Districts of Cumberland and Westmoreland at various 
heights up to 3166 feet. Wind almost uniformly from a westerly quarter. 
Years. 
Whitehaven. 
The 
Flosh, 
3 miles 
south of 
White- 
haven. 
Kes- 
wick, 
258 feet. 
Cocker- 
mouth. 
B^^sen- 
thwaite 
Hills, 
210 feet. 
Vale of 
Giller- 
thwaite, 
Enner- 
dale, 
286 feet. 
Lowes- 
water, 
336 feet. 
Foot of 
Crum- 
mock 
Lake, 
283 feet. 
Gates- 
garth, 
Butter- 
mere, 
326 feet. 
Eskdale. 
Wast- 
dale 
Head, 
166 feet. 
Westmoreland. 
Borrowdale. 
High 
Street, 
90 feet. 
Round 
Close, 
480 feet. 
Saint 
Jameses 
Church 
Steeple, 
78 feet. 
Centre 
of 
Vale, 
166 
feet. 
Head 
of 
Vale. 
The 
How, 
Trout- 
beck, 
300 feet. 
Amble- 
side, 
190 feet. 
Lang- 
dale 
Head, 
250 feet. 
Sea- 
thwaite, 
in Gar- 
den, at 
6 inches, 
1334 
feet. 
Sea- 
thwaite, 
in the 
Keld, 
at 18 
inches, 
1334 
feet. 
Stone- 
thwaite. 
ts 
c. 
n 
L 
f. 
in. 
in« 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
m. 
1848. 
47-342 
46-700 
36-344 
60-82 
66-407 
52-37 
47-06 
97-73 
76-668 
98-07 
133-55 
86-78 
70-38 
115-32 
91-347 
76-82 
130-38 
160-89 
157-22 
130-24 
13- 
1847. 
42-921 
42-023 
30-713 
47-80 
58-286 
42-55 
44-45 
80-13 
66-209 
82-32 
106-25 
58-66 
7493 
96-34 
78-004 
112-95 
129-24 
126-80 
106-21 
1846. 
49-134 
35-422 
55-16 
67-678 
52-41 
83-87 
70-249 
96-47 
121-90 


106-93 
77-719 
127-40 
143-51 
1845. 
49-207 
33-480 
53-00 
62-212 
46-93 
76-88 
69-542 
87-48 
124-13 
108-55 
76-305 
136-00 
151-87 
These records attest that in the town of Whitehaven the difference in the fall of 
rain in the High Street and on the steeple of St. James’s Church in 1845, was 15*727 
inches, and in 1848 the difference was 10*998 inches, while at the Flosh, only three 
miles south of Whitehaven, the fall was in excess in those years respectively over the 
fall in the High Street, 2*873 inches and 13*478 inches, while the excess over the fall 
on the steeple was 19*600 inches and 24*476 inches. In Borrowdale also, in a field 
adjoining a garden, in the years 1847 and 1848, the fall was in excess in the garden 
of 2*44 inches and 3*67 inches respectively. These facts suggest caution to all ob- 
servers in other parts of England and elsewhere. 
Professor Phillips for some years made observations at York on the top of the 
Minster, the Museum, and on the ground, to determine the effect of elevation upon 
the rain-fall, but objections being taken to the results in respect to eddies of wind and 
other causes of error, he lifted rain-gauges into the air, independently of buildings, and 
the results of the observations for the years 1843 and 1844 he communicated to the 
British Association at York in 1844, 
The sums of the rain-fall in the two years at different heights were, — 
inches. 
24 feet 24*158 
12 feet 26*039 
6 feet 26*109 
3 feet 26*298 
l^foot 26*559 
The nearer the earth, therefore, the greater the amount of rain collected. Mr. Mil- 
ler’s records at Whitehaven, giving for four years the amount of rain collected in 
the High Street and on the Church Steeple, confirm Professor Phillips’s observations, 
supposing the steeple to be 78 feet above the High Street. At Calcutta, in the 
