British Rainfall 1897, p.20

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	British Rainfall 1897 page20 at 1,550 ft., among masses of rock, and the position more resembled the roof of a house than a level site for a rain gauge; and, therefore, though the 76 in. did not agree with our line, we did not feel called upon to move it. Careful examination of the map will show that for some part of the district there is still a great dearth of observations. By far the worst, is the area bounded by lines running N.W.-S.E. through Kirkstone Pass and through Mardale Green, and crossed at right angles by lines through Longsleddale Parsonage and Martindale Parsonage respectively; this gives an area of 50 square miles in which no rain gauge has ever been placed. It will be rather strange if our lines across that area do not require modification whenever records are obtained from that locality. A faint parallelogram will be seen surrounding Seathwaite; it indicates approximately the area dealt with in British Rainfall, 1896, and of which the particulars will, therefore not be found in this year's tables, nor is there room on the map for the results for all the stations given on the large scale map of our last volume. Rather more than thirty years ago (on Feb. 14th, 1867) one of us gave evidence before the Royal Commission which, under the chairmanship of the Duke of Richmond, was considering the supply of London with water from the English Lakes. We have been reading that evidence, and upon the whole the values then assigned (on a totally different basis) to such of the stations in the preceding tables as were then in existence, agree somewhat remarkably with those now obtained.
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