...kept at different elevations within its limits. Popular adage of " Forty days rain after St. Swilhin" how far founded in fact. The opinion of the people...period, which with some latitude as to time and local circumstanees may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time...

...notion will be found fallacious, if put to the test of experience at any one station in our island; yet that, " in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for 40 days, does come on about the time indicated by this tradition." The fact itself is accounted for...

...fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may how state, that in a majority of our sumtners, tlry as to mark distinctly its commencetalent. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following...

...ttation in this part of the island, will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I en in a double rank which presenLi a double prospect, one f peí iod, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute...

...degree, on fact or experience ; " and to do justice to the popular observation in question, he states that, " in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement." NOTE 8. p. 110. This fact may be demonstrated by converting the triangle into a parallelogram, of which...

...degree, on fact or experience ; " and to do justice to the popular observation in question, he states that, " in a majority of our summers, a. showery period,...indicated by this tradition ; not that any long space be-, fore is often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement." 190 NOTE 8. p. 110. This fact may...

...notion will be found fallacious, if put to the test of experience at any one station in our island ; yet that, ' in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...come on about the time indicated by this tradition.' The fact itself is accounted for by the proximity of the summer solstice ; as the second rainy period...

...it must be obdo justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our-summers, a showery period, which, with some latitude as to...tradition : not that any long space before is often so served, that in 1816, the wettest year of the series, the solstitial abundance of rain dry as to mark...

...other summers, occurring between 1807 and 1819, appear to have come under the general proposition, " that in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...forty days, does come on about the time indicated by the tradition of St. Swithin." July 20. — The birth-day of Francis Petrarch, one of the three renowned...

...station in this part of the Island, will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our summers,...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. yard, and not in the chancel of the minster, as was usual with other bishops, and his request was complied...