TABLE, showing the Quantity of Rain that fell at Edinburgh during the Year 1810. Days of the Jan. Feb. Mar. April. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Month In. Pts.In. Pts. In. Pts.In. Pts.In. Pts.In. Pts.In. Pts.In. Pts.In. Pts.In. Pts.In. Pts.In. Pts TABLE, showing the Monthly Results of a Meteorological Journal kept at Nottingham by Dr Clarke in 1810. VOL. III. PART II. The Barometer is firmly fixed to a standard wall, on an elevation of 130 feet; and the Pluviameter, or Rain-gange, is placed in a garden, 140 feet above the level of the sea. 2 K Scotland. TABLE, showing the Quantity of Rain that fell in different Parts of England and Scotland in the Year 1810. 1310. England. 514 Jan. April, 2.280 1.770 1.743 3.740 1.08 no act. 0.28 0.26 0.58 1.10 1.14 0.64 0.89 1.39 2.17 2.85 2.68 4.87 1.84 1.05| Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Total, 30.53 38.93 26.70 27.98 29.59 28.08 28.97 $4.2239.17 32.68 42.84 41.5251.27 28.76 23.15 16.615 25.636 25.010 21.433 38.714 25.89 34.72|59.17|92.00། • Including the three last days in June. GENERAL RESULTS. Inches. CHICHESTER, greatest quantity of rain fell in November, ..................11.77 KENDAL,.... ..........Ditto........... December,................... 8.41 FELTFOOT, near Milnthorpe,7 pc2} Ditto............December,................... 8.28 Westmoreland, DALTON, Lancashire,..............Ditto............December, BRISTOL,............................................................................... LARGS,..... A DERBY, LONDON,. ....Ditto............December, ...Ditto............December, .......... Ditto............November, FERRIBY, Kingston upon Hull, Ditto............ November, ....Ditto............November, ................Ditto..............................December, Ditto............July,.......... ...........Ditto............ July... 3.85 3.724 HEATH, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, CHATSWORTH, Derbyshire, ... Ditto............December, GORDON CASTLE, CARLISLE, BOTHWELL CASTLE, .......... ...............Ditto............Decem er, .................. 4.070 NOTTINGHAM, GLASGOW, The observations of the quantity of rain that fell in England were collected by the Reverend Dr Blanchard, of Nottingham. For the observations made in Scotland, we are indebted to Thomas Allan, Esq. LIFE OF DR BEDDOES. Theevening of the 24th of December, 1808, terminated the active and conspicuous life of Dr Beddoes, of Clifton. His biography has been written in an elaborate form by Dr Stock, of Bristol, from whose able work several of the following incidents are taken. Dr Beddoes was descended from part of a respectable Welsh family which had settled in Shropshire; he was born at Shiffnall, a small town in that county, on the 13th of April, 1760. A fondness for books, in preference to the common amusements of childhood, was very early noticed in him; at five years old he read well, and this love for study, and a remark able promise of talent, led his grandfather, who, although an unlearned, was a shrewd and discerning man, to relinquish the original plan of bringing him up as a tanner, the family trade, and to fit him, by a liberal and university education, for one of the learned professions. When he was nine years old, his grandfather was killed by a fall from a horse, by which his ribs were broken and thrust into the substance of the lungs. This accident often produces an effect which has a very striking appearance; the air which is drawn into the chest during breathing, finds its way through the wounds into the cellular substance of the lungs, and as this communicates with a similar substance which extends throughout the body, the air soon runs over the whole surface, and swells it out with a puffy and crackling tumour. This was the case in the present instance in a very unusual degree; the whole body and limbs were swollen with air, and the features of the face were almost obliterated by it. The strangeness of these appearances, combined with his affection for his grandfather, produced a strong impression on the mind of young Beddoes; he was never out of the sick room; he was always present at the consultations of the medical attendants, and attracted their notice by the acuteness of his inquiries; to the surgeon, who lived near, he attached himself particularly, and became fond of frequenting his shop and amusing himself with witnessing the preparation of the medicines. His companions called him the little doctor, and he himself, from this time, always declared that he would be a physician. After his grandfather's death, he was put to the free grammar school |