FOR NINE MONTHS OF THE YEARS 1850-51. 



Week ending 19th June, 1851. 



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Obs. — The weather of the last week has been fine and well adapted to 

 the final duties of the wheat harvest. The fields now present the trans- 

 planted paddy or the cotton plant rendered visible by the removal of the 

 wheat. The temperature has been gradually increasing — the evening of 

 the 18th being exceedingly oppressive — until the air was cooled by a 

 heavy fall of rain, which has continued to descend, with little intermis- 

 sion, up to the present time. The average temperature of the week has 

 been 75-3° ; that of the corresponding week last year 74-8°. 



Obs. — The past week, which has been accompanied with much rain, 

 has been spent by the peasants principally in clearing the young cotton 

 plants of the surrounding weeds and in hoeing up the ground about their 



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