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XVII. On the Meteorology of the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland ; 
including the results of Experiments on the fall of Rain at various heights, up to 
3166 feet above the sea level. 
By John Fletcher Miller, Esq., F.R.A.S. 
Communicated by Lieut.-Col. Sabine, For. Sec. R.S. 
Received February 19, — Read April 19, 1849. 
The form of the instruments, their positions, &c., are fully described in a former 
paper, read before the Royal Society on the 18th of May 1848. 
The Roman numerals attached to each gauge refer to corresponding numbers on 
a map of the Lake District accompanying the said paper. 
With one exception, elsewhere referred to, no accident of any importance has 
occurred to interrupt the continuity or correctness of the rain tables. Indeed, con- 
sidering the extent of the experiments, and the exposed position of many of the in- 
struments, mishaps of any kind have from the first been exceeding rare. The gauges 
are all under my own supervision ; the registrars are all thoroughly instructed in the 
method of reading off the rain, which is regularly recorded in registers prepared for 
the purpose ; and, being all careful persons, and almost constantly on the spot, the 
observations are seldom omitted even for a single day. 
The records are transmitted to me at the close of each month, and are entered in 
collateral columns in a large folio journal ; should there be any apparent discrepancy 
at any station on any particular day or days, an explanation is requested, and the 
original register examined, to ascertain whether the transmitted copy is correct. In 
this way, errors have occasionally, though very rarely, been discovered, and I do not 
recollect that one such has occurred during the past year. 
The Observatory, Whitehaven, 
February Q, 1849. 
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