urban population, its restricted markets, and its limited manufactures,[1] seems as unreasonable as to argue that because it pays Mr. Early Pease, of Brompton, to employ a press of hands and £50. of manure per acre in raising asparagus for Covent-
- ↑ Here again M. de Laveleye, speaking of the rise in the value of land, which he says has nearly doubled in thirty years, enlarges on the intimate connection between the agricultural and the manufacturing prosperity of Belgium:—
"D'innombrables usines de toute espèce, disséminées dans toute la contrée, favorisent ainsi l'essor du travail et l'accroissement de la population: elles multiplient les sources de prospérité
thoroughly understood, I subjoin a table of the rainfall observed at Dublin during the last eight years, from which it will be seen that, on an average, seven inches of rain fell in that locality during the months of harvest. But Dublin is on the east coast, and the rainfall of Dublin is no more a guide to the climate of Kerry, Galway, Limerick, Mayo, or Donegal, than the climate of London and Edinburgh is to that of Cornwall or the Hebrides. In 1861 rain fell even in the least rainy part of Ireland on 218 days, and in 1863 on 221 days.
Inches of Rain which fell in July, August, and September, as registered at Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park.
| Year. | Inches of Rain | Dry Years. | Wet Years. |
| Below average. | Above average. |
1855 6·5 ·6 —
1856 7·6 — ·5
1857 4·7 2·4 —
1858 7·2 — ·1
1859 4·9 2·2 —
1860 8·8 — 1·7
1861 11·0 — 3·9
1862 6·7 ·4 —
