Norwich is just beginning to recover from the terrible floods which for the last few days have rendered some ten thousand people homeless and inflicted hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of damage on the city and the surrounding country.
It immediately followed a steady downpour for thirty-nine hours, during which 7.34 inches of rain fall. That is not an estimate, but an accurate registration fully vouched for by Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, the leading expert in the uss of the rain gauge. In the rainy part of these islands for instanos, among, the mountains of Scotland and the Cumberland lakes, falls as heavy have been noted some fourbsen times since records began to be kept; but in dry regions such as the plain of East Anglia, they have hitherto been unknown.
The only previous authentic instance of so #normous a fall in such 1 short time occurred near Morpeth in 1898 when 6.70 inches fell during a tremendous thunderstorm. But, in the case of Norwich there was no thunder. It was simply a continuous heavy downpour "of the type known 38 mic.
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