TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. -~ 39 
I mean to lose no opportunity of obtaining more. The following is a summary of 
the observations :— 
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Date SE 83| Se SE Se ¥: wo| 5 Remarks, 
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1847, ? knots, | feet. | fath. |seconds,| knot Ship “het th a 
i ip before the wind, with a 
April 21.) .., 72 | 22) 55 | 100 | 27 heavy following sea. 
5 
; 5 | 60] 20} 43 8:0 | 24:5 | Ditto. 
», 24) 6 | 4 | 60/20] 50 | 10:0 | 24:0] Ditto. 
4 | 50]|-... |85to40) 7:8 | 22:1] Sea irregular. 
4 
+ aa 60}... | 33 74 | 22:1 | Heavy following sea. 
Sea irregular. Observation not 
May 2] 6 |(45)) 70 | 22) 57 | 104 | 262 very S08 in consequence. 
e ‘ » f Wind and sea a little on Port 
37/5 178117| 35 | 89 | 22 abl to e 
Note.—The numbers denoting the strength of the wind are those used by Admiral Beaufort. 
On the Fall of Rain on the Table-land of Uttree Mullay, Travancore, during 
the year 1846, from observations made by General Cullen, Resident in 
Travancore, By Lieut.-Colonel Syxes, V.P.R.S. : 
At the Meeting of the British Association at Southampton I communicated to the 
Physical Section some meteorological records of General Cullen made at certain sta- 
tions in the south of India. The results exhibited singular discrepancies in the fall 
of rain at the several localities, particularly at Cape Comorin, although the differ- 
ences of temperatures were unimportant at stations not differing greatly in their 
level above the sea or in their latitude. The most remarkable feature was the small 
quantity of rain at Cape Comorin and Vaurioor at the extremity of the peninsula, 
amounting only from 18 to 253 inches-in the years 1841, 1842 ahd 1843, while 
from 100 to 131 inches fell at places on the Malabar coast, and about 290 inches 
fell on the table-land of Uttree Mullay, not far in the interior. I suggested to Ge- 
neral Cullen an examination of local physical circumstances, with a view to ac- 
‘count for the variations. In a letter in reply, dated the 6th of January last, from 
Trevandrum, General Cullen said that the General Tables were ready for 1844, 
1845 and 1846, but that public business had left him without leisure to comment 
on them, or to complete the barometrical sections which he contemplated; and all 
that he could then do was to transmit to me a continuation of the rain and tempe- 
rature observations for 1846 on the table-land of Uttree Mullay at 4600 feet above 
the level of the sea, adding in an abstract, in parallel columns, the comparative fall 
of rain at Trevandrum and Quilon. For a future communication therefore is re- 
served General Cullen’s views of the question submitted to him, and the present 
notice is limited to his daily observations of the fall of rain and the temperature at 
Uttree Mullay. The fall of rain was recorded twice daily, at 6 a.m. and 6 P.m., 
and the temperature thrice daily, 6a.m.,2P.m.and6p.m. In 1844-45 the fall of 
rain had been 290 inches: in 1846 it was only 235°8 inches. It has been formerly 
stated that Uttree Mullay is under the influence of both monsoons. Rain fell in 
every month in the year, although the months of February and March may almost 
be considered exceptions ; for in the former month rain fell only twice to the amount 
of 0°45 of an inch, and in the latter month on five occasions, but to the amount only 
of 0°72 of aninch. The greatest monthly fall of rain was in the month of June, 
51 inches, in the S.W. monsoon, and the next greatest fall in October, in the N.E. 
monsoon, 38°25 inch, Inthe months of May, June, July and August the S.W. mon- 
soon may be considered to have prevailed, and 143 inches of rain fell. A comparative 
