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into which the months naturally group themselves with 

 reference to their dryness or wetness. January, February, 

 and March were months in which the rain-fall exceeded 

 the average, the aggregate excess being a little more than an inch. 

 Then came a period of deficiency, extending from April to July. 

 In each of these four months the fall was deficient, and the 

 deficiency for the whole period was four and a half inches. The 

 chief intensity of the drought was from the 16th of April to the 

 22nd of June, in which interval of nearly ten weeks the rain-fall 

 amounted to no more than 0'687 inch. With the month of 

 August commenced a second period of excess, and this continued 

 to the end of the year, the total excess of the last five months 

 being more than six and a half inches. The excess was trifling 

 in November, but was extremely large in September, this month 

 yielding over seven inches of rain, and ranking as fourth in the 

 order of the wettest months that have occurred in twenty-two 

 years. 



Specially heavy rains were noted on the 6th of October, 1-138 

 inch in twenty-four hours; and on the 8th of December, 1-255 

 inch in thirty-six hours. 



The deepest snow of the year occurred on the 30th of Decem- 

 ber, when the average depth was four inches. 



