142 Account of the Rain xvhich Jails at Bombay. 



Mean of eleven years, 



78,34 



It appears from the detailed register of the pluviometer for 

 1827, which accompanied these monthly and annual results, 

 that rain fell every day from the ^th June to the 9>0th Septern^ 

 her, with the exception only of 4 days, viz. June 11th and 

 31st, and July 1st and 27th. In 1827, the principal showers 

 fell in June ; the most remarkable of which were as follows : 



In the able article on Hygrometry in the Edinburgh 

 Encyclopedia, vol. xi. p. 597, and in the article Physical 

 Geography, vol. xvi. p. 514, Dr Anderson of Perth, by 

 whom these articles were written, has explained an ingenious 

 process for determining the quantity of rain which falls in dif- 

 ferent latitudes from the equator to the pole ; and has given 

 the following table for every five degrees of latitude : 



