92° ee 
four feet above the ground. The firf 
four months, this No. VI. ftood on a 
building in Mr. Farcy’s yard, feven feet 
| from the ground. 
The relative heights of each op thefe 
different gauges, with mine, is intended 
Rain Guages—Storm of Lig htning. 
[ Sept. Ts 
to be given in fome future communication, 
and alfo their heights above the fea, de- 
duced from Capti ain Mudge’s Trigono-~ 
metrical Survey, for which calculation he 
has pany furnifhed us with ample datae 
Lhe RACH of Rain falien in the above-mentioned Places, for the lof fix Months, 
is as follows. 
On the Summit 
| In the Valley. 
A I. | LE Vs ET. 7 Ve | VI. 
Inches. Inches. | Inches. || Inches. | Inches. | Inches. 
January “ 0.788 0.744. O-744 0.639 0.650 Ta-tPS 
February - ~~ 1.232 1.362 1.018 0.895 .| 1.002 229A 
March. - = 1.096 5527 1.026 1.3386 12247 2.097 
April - = 1.166 | 1.766 1.067 1-454 1). 16339 2.493 
May - = 1-295 1-444 0.963 0.763 1.168 1.621 
June - - EL FOG! Wis 727. 1.793 1.807 ‘¥.676 1.746 
Total - 7.147 8.560 6.611 || 6.944 7 4072 | 116346 > 
Mr. Farey requefts me alfo to mention, 
that being at the village of Ridgemont, 
near Woburn, on Wednefday, the firft of 
this month,’about noon, a ftorm came on, 
attended with diftant thunder. At firft, 
it hailed pretty fmartly, afrer which there 
was a heavy fail of rain for fifteen or 
twenty minutes ;-near the conclufion of 
which, remarking an uncommon appear- 
ance in the lower extremity of a blackith 
cloud towards the weft, he attentively 
ob/erved it, and faw a water /pout proceed 
from this cloud; it continued  vifible 
nearly a quarter of an hour, frequently 
lengthening itfelf toa great diftance below 
the cloud ; again contraéting, it was ta- 
pered towards the lower end, where it ap- 
peared’to terminate in.a blunt point. It 
rained all the time at Ridgemont, or pro- 
bably the rain could have been feen de- 
{cending belowit. It did not proje&t ver- 
tically from the cloud, but inclined confi- 
derably -towards the wind, then about 
north eaft, and wasnot ftraight,but curved, 
with the convex fide towards the wind. 
A little time before it difappeared, it- 
lengthened out to nearly double its former © 
Jengih, and became cylindrical or nearly 
fo, with its edges defined like a pipe: 
during this time ‘it varied from its former 
horo-like appearance to a Pua oes or fer- 
pentine line. It appears to have pfied 
over the village a, and part ef Wa- 
venden, and at thefe places, and in the in- 
tesyeniag fields, it rained in torrents for a 
few minutes, 
Ft is rather remarkable, 
that on the next day. about the fame hour, | 
another water. {pout pafled over Maulden, 
near Ampthill, in this county. 
‘Lam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
B. Bevan, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magpsine- 
SIR; 
T having been fuggefted to me by fome 
friends and readers of your Magazine, 
that the following incident is net unwor- 
thy of a place among it your mifcellane- 
ous articles, and as there is. perhaps no 
probability that iowill be inferted in any 
of the new/papers circulated in thefe parts, 
I have taken the liberty of feading you an. 
acceunt of it. é 
Yelterday, in-the afternoon, came on 
here a moft tremendous ftorm of thunder 
aud Kehtning,that took at firft-a north-~ 
eafierly direfticn, but which afterwards re- 
turned, and fent forth its fonorous and 
awtul rumbling from different quarters of 
the.heavens. A fine afh-tree, nearly thir. 
ty yards in height, belonging to Mr. John 
Fothergill, of Brounber, and growing 
upon his eftate at Crofs-gates, in this 
parith, was fuddenly ftruck with the light- 
ning, and fivered almofi to pieces. The 
Hunt of the tree, meafuring ten*yards and 
a balf in length, and.two yards ‘and three 
quarters in circumference, was f{plit from 
the top to the bottom, and broken into:a” 
thoufand 
