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Meteorological Tables, dedttcedjrwn a Register of the WeatJier, 

 kept at Bancoorah in tlie East Indies, during the Years 

 1827 anhd 1828. 



«l-luRiNG a residence of seven years in Bengal, I paid a good 

 deal of attention to the weath^ and kept a register as connect- 

 edly as I could for the greater part of the time. There is a re- 

 markable similarity in the climate there, and I found that 

 though the monthly results varied in some instances consider- 

 ably, the yearly average did not materially differ. Thinking 

 that it may be of some importance to know facts at a time when 

 every thing connected with climate causes an unusual interest, I 

 have sent you the results of two years which were considered to 

 be extremes, — ^the one in respect of rain, and the other unques- 

 tionably of drought, in order that the medium of the two may 

 be estimated as the weather commonly to be looked for at the 

 place where I was stationed. 



Bancoorah, situated in 23" 20' North Latitude, and 87° 12' East 

 Longitude, is a civil station in Bengal, distant a hundred mijes 

 west-north-west from Calcutta, on the great road to Benares. 

 The country is remarkably level upwards from Calcutta, until 

 you reach Burdwan, a distance of fifty miles; and it is from this 

 last place that the country ascends in a gradual elevation to 

 Bancoorah, a distance of fifty miles, above which place the ascent 

 is much more rapid, and the country becomes hilly. The face 

 of the country about Bancoorah is covered with low woods, and 

 the soil is gravelly, with a clayey sand on the surface, that be- 

 comes perfectly hard in the dry weather, and requires much rain 

 or manual irrigation to render productive. The river Dalkissah, 

 that passes Bancoorah, brings down in floods considerable pieces 

 of trap and also of quartz rock, containing a large portion of mica 

 (which is largely imbedded in the gravelly soil of Bancoorah and 

 its neighbourhood), from the hills about its sources ; but about 

 the place itself, with the exception of , two or three masses of 

 quartz jutting above the surface, there is no rock or stone of any 

 consequence. There is a considerable bed of coal and freestone 



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