British Rainfall 1867, p.12
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British Rainfall 1867 page 12
organizing them. Not that the gallant captain has expected, received, or would accept, repayment even of his outlay; but it must be a source of great satisfaction to him to find that, what he took up simply as a scientific question has already, as is so often eventually the case, borne practical fruit in supplying information as to the rainfall, and therefore available water supply of the Principality, with reference to the Metropolis, to Liverpool, and other places. Thanks to the daily growth of these practical applications of rainfall statistics, we have this year several additional returns from a district previously unexamined; but which having been commenced, will not, I hope, be too abruptly abandoned. These results are rapidly removing the rainfall of Wales from the uncertainties of conjecture to the rigourous domain of physical facts. Very much has already been ascertained, as the general tables for Wales (Division XI.) abundantly show; but much has yet to be done. Wales, in the matter of rain, has yet her spurs to win - a second Stye, or Seathwaite, or even Langdale, has not yet been found.
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