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we have found, however, that the " hump " in the sun-spot curve in 

 1874 was accompanied by a remarkable increase in the number of 

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We have already referred, iri discussing the Indian rainfall, to a 

 remarkable intensification of the south-west monsoon in 1874-75, the 

 effect of which is especially noticeable in the rainfalls of the Konkan 

 and North-west Provinces, and we have come to the conclusion that 

 we must consider all these events as due to a common cause that is, to 



