Ss Meter ological Regifter at Leighton: 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR 
NE word in favour of our own lJan- 
guage which the tranflator of the 
French method of reftoring Raphael’sjpic- 
ture, p. 407, of your December Magazine, 
complains, is not as copious as the French. 
[Feb. 1, 
He mentions the word recoquillement, as 
not having a fimilar one in Englith. Sir, 
the old word cackling or cockling-up, the 
firft of which is in Johnfon, is an exact 
tranflation— recoquiller is in Cotgrave. 
Your’s, &c. 
A TRANSLATOR. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ft Rew averages and totals for the laf fix months in the year 1802 are as under :—~ 
for the former part of the year, fee Monthly Magazine, vol. xiv. p:3. 
Thermowieter. 
1802. Baromet. 
inch. 
29-505 
29-696" 
29-695 
29-456 — 
29+304 
29-393 
des. 
58.9 
64.5 
55'S 
46.8 
33.6 
3401 
July - 
Auguft 
September 
Oétober - 
November 
December 
Mean 29.508 
totals | 8.73 
total for 
year | 7-49 
Sos 
Mean for the 
whole Year 
The reader will perceive that the quan- 
tity of rain is ftill on the decreafe, not 
being more than feventeen inches and a 
half, when, on an average, we expect 
about twenty two or twenty-three. This 
great diminution has ferioufly affected ma- 
ny of the fprings in this diftrict, and, 
what is of more importance, has rendered 
nearly ufelefs the Grand Junétion Canal, 
This may be doubted by fome, as being 
the caufe of the want of water on the 
fummit ; but it merits a full confidera- 
tion, becaufe every one, by this time, muft 
know; that all fprings owe their origin to 
rain; and, if, for feveral years, the quan-" 
tity of rain has been diminifhing, in the 
fame ratio muft the fprings be deficient. 
If twenty-three inches be a fair average, 
and we receive only feventeen, we fuffer 
2 lofs of nearly ove-fourth ; and, fuppofe 
the general quantity able to keep up a 
without |vithin 
| Approximation of 
| Rain. |Evapo-|\Wind to the Cardinal 
ration. Points. 
inch. | inch. 
55 | Tee 
0.44 | 2.62 
0.25 | 2.08 
2.34 | 0.75 
T2775 + 0.25 
1.88 | 0.20 
{ 
ee ee ee ee ee 
| 
9343049. 1233 
_ ee 
16.27 
} 29*551 | 47:0 | 49.6 
head of four feet in the canal, the fupply, 
when diminified in that ratio, will only 
afford.a depth of three feet, which wilf 
prevent any ftxll loaded barge from paffing, 
and the hindrance will be much more than 
the proportion of four to three: becaufe a 
barge defigned to draw four feet of water 
cannot carry above Aalf her full burden 
in water of three feet deep. I do not fay 
this is the fole caufe of the late ftoppage 
of the canal; 1 know very well there are 
two or three more that cperate in the 
fame way, and nearly in as great a de~ 
gree; but this is not the place to difeufs 
the fubjcét : perhaps I may, if I can find 
leifure, at fome future time, give you my 
theaghis more fully on this fubjed. _ 
I remain, Sir, your’s, &c. 
; B. BevaNe 
Leighton, Eedfordfhire, Far. 21,1804. 
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