Rain is very unequally distributed, there being portions of the torrid zone where it _never_ falls, one locality in Norway where it falls three days out of four, and another on the western side of Patagonia, at the base of the Andes, where it falls every day. The quantities recorded as having fallen at one time in some localities are simply appalling. A fall of one inch is considered a very heavy rain in Great Britain, and this fact will enable the reader partially to realize the following stupendous recorded falls:—Loch Awe, Scotland, 7 inches in 30 hours; Joyeuse, France, 31 inches in 22 hours; Gibraltar, 33 inches in 26 hours; hills above Bombay, 24 inches in one night; and on the Khasia Hills, where the annual rainfall is 600 inches, 30 inches have been known to fall on each of five successive days. Mr. G. J. Symons, the able editor of the “Meteorological Magazine,” and indefatigable superintendent of 2,000 Rain Gauges throughout the United Kingdom, has compiled a table, showing the equivalents of rain in inches, its weight per acre, and bulk in gallons, the following portion of which, while very useful to the farmer, will enable the curious reader to make some interesting calculations, based on the figures quoted above:— TABLE SHOWING EQUIVALENT OF INCHES OF RAIN IN GALLONS, AND WEIGHT PER ACRE. Inches of Rain Tons per Acre Gallons per Acre 0·1 10 2262 0·2 20 4525 0·3 30 6787 0·4 40 9049 0·5 50 11312 0·6 61 13574 0·7 71 15836 0·8 81 18098 0·9 91 20361 1·in. 101 22623