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were in Bett's Camp nearly 6,000 feet high, I observed the forma- 

 tion of high clouds in the S.E., and their approach towards the 

 N.W., subsequently they vanished. There is no surer sign of 

 continuous and extensive rain approaching than that. 



On that day and the following, it was very fine, and also the 

 morning of the 13th was cloudless in the mountains. The next 

 was fairly fine in the morning. There were very high clouds all 

 over the sky. This together with the foregoing observations, 

 enabled me by my old alpine experience to foi'etell a regular 

 extensive rain, which also set in. Tt is of course, not here to 

 decide how often a mistake would be made by a forecast of this 

 kind ; but two conclusions can at all events be drawn from the 

 fact, that I did foretell the rain. Firstly, that European experience 

 also holds good in Australia ; and secondly, that no place is so well 

 adapted for the erection of a meteorological station as these high 

 mountains, as one is nowhere else in so good a position to make a 

 forecast as there ; where in consequence of the elevation, one is 

 nearer the clouds, and in most cases probably close to the place — 

 on the main dividing range, where the rain is brewed. 



