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SAlSr FKANCISCO, CAL. 

 Maximum, September 14, 1874, 89° F. Minimum, December 26, 1875, 40° F. 



Eain-MI, annual amount, 21.54 inches. 



GALVESTOX, TEX. 



Eain-fall, annual amount, 40.06 inches. 



NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



Eain-fall, annual amount, 74.98 inches. 



He remarks for June, 1875, as to relative humidity : '' This element 

 averages 80 per cent, for the immediate coast of New Jersey and New 

 England, and 75 per cent, on the South Atlantic coast. Elsewhere, over 

 nearly the entire country east of the western plains, the average is from 

 G5 to 70 per cent. It is, as usual, very low at the Eocky Mountain 

 stations, being 33 per cent, at Cheyenne, 29 at Salt Lake City, and 28 

 at Denver." 



The rain-fall iu inches for June, 1875, was, for Santa F«^, 0.33; for Den- 

 ver, 0.43 ; Salt Lake City, 0.90 ; and the annual amount of rain-fall for 

 the same places is reported at 10.68, 15.24, and 20.24, respectively. For 

 San Francisco, Cal., it was 21.54; for Galveston, Tex., 46.66; and for 

 New Orleans, 74.98 inches. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The dryness of this atmosphere is proverbial. The lands are culti- 

 vated entirely by irrigation, and have been so for centuries. Tbe tra- 

 dition among the Pueblo Indians, as given by Hosti, is that, the rain 

 falling less and less, the people emigrated to the southward long before 

 the Spaniards arrived in the country, (the visit of Coronado was made 

 about 1542,) being led by Montezuma, a powerful man, who was born in 



