British Rainfall 1895, p.18
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British Rainfall 1895 page 18
DESCRIPTION OF THE STATION. We have tried by various illustrations to render this as nearly complete as possible. In case any person desires to find the spot on a map, we give the precise latitude and longitude of the garden in which the standard gauge (No.I.) has always been - viz. 54° 29' 55" N., and 3° 10' 50" W. The height above sea level is 422 ft. The tinted map represents about 30 square miles, with Seathwaite nearly in the centre, in a valley running northwards, and then north-eastwards towards Derwentwater. The valley runs nearly due south (narrowing and rising) for about a mile south of the Hamlet, and at about three-quarters of a mile south of the Hamlet is entered froom the south-west by a glen, down which Taylor's Gill discharges the water from Sty Head Tarn. The heavy rainfall at Seathwaite has been explained as follows (and most of the details can be traced on the map):- Wastwater is just outside the map, S.S.W. of Seathwaite. The rainbearing clouds are supposed to be driven over Wastwater, and their only exit is by passing over Lingmell Beck and over Sty Head Pass; theu are this lifted to about 1500 ft. above sea level, and condense on passing the summit (at The Sty) and in the Seathwaite valley beyond. The plan of the Hamlet is on a large scale, so as to show the details of the little garden, and its freedom from trees - the nearest one being 60 ft. away. It may be well to state that repeated measurement has shown that no object in or near the garden subtends an angle of 30° above the gauge. This point is stated distinctly, because in non-stereoscopic photographs it is not easy to judge of the distance of objects one behind another. The four views (two of which form the frontispiece) show respectively the surroundings of the old gauges, I., IV.,. and VII., and of Mr. Marshall's gauge, No.VI. The sites (or directions) whence the several views were taken are indicated on the large scale plan by the letters A, B, C, D, which are also attached to the views. For the photographs, whence these interesting blocks have been prepared, we are indebted to Mr. W. Marriott. |
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