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I DID not refer to the two chapters mentioned as I had discussed that evidence twice previously (Geog. Jour., vol. 43, 1914) and in a later paper in the Edinburgh Review. I read the two chapters with interest as they show the indefiniteness of the evidence carefully collected by Dr. Brooks, except as regards the local minor variations which are inevitable. Its inconsistency as indications of any world-wide or even widespread considerable climatic variation is shown by Mr. Meyer's case. He claims from the east Kent watermills that “a period of heavy rainfall was drawing to a close in the latter part of the thirteenth century”. Dr. Brooks's table 22 (p. 345) gives a census of floods and droughts in Britain; the maximum of floods, No. 9, was in 1051–1100; and instead of droughts in 1251–1300 being at a minimum, they were at a maximum. The figures for the seven half-centuries are as follows:
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GREGORY, J. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 120, 366 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120366a0
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