_Fall of Rain in England._--Can you give me any information respecting
the fall of rain in England? I mean the quantity of rain that has fallen
in various parts of the island, from month to month, during the last
ten, fifteen, or twenty years. If any of your correspondents can do
that, or can give me a list of works, periodical or otherwise, in which
such information is to be found, they will greatly oblige me.
Can any of your correspondents inform me who is the author of the
following lines?--
"Though with forced mirth we oft may soothe a smart,
What seemeth well, is oft not well, I ween;
For many a burning breast and bleeding heart,
Hid under guise of mirth is often seen."