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A TABLE fiew'ing the ^ant'ity 

 of Rain that fell at Algiers in the 



Autumn? 1730 

 Spring J i7?r 



Autumn? 1752 

 Spring /1755 

 Inches 



Several 

 drilling 

 Showers 

 in Septem, 

 and O[lob. 



OBob. 



Qctoh. 



J 30 



Nov. 



Dec. 



Jau. 



Feb. 



March 



3^ 

 31 



τ 



II 



28 

 29 



3° 



I 



^7 

 30 

 2 

 4 

 S 

 6 



7 

 9 



I? 



30 



I 



17 

 19 



22 



a? 

 2^ 



29 



I 



10 



I? 



IT 



»4 



Inches 



o> 73• 



?5• 

 20• 



47- 



00• 



4v 



s^• 



60. 

 63. 

 IT• 

 6τ• 

 ΐο• 



25. 



90. 



οο• 



4?• 



70. 



ΙΟ. 



8ο. 



20. 

 ΐί. 



?5•• 

 ?Τ• 

 8τ• 

 8ο. 



25"• 



33• 

 6ο• 

 8ο. 



20. 

 20. 



25"• 

 8ο. 



2^. 

 If 



03. 



Ι?. 



Nov. 



Dec 



There is nothing conftant and regular in eafterly or wefterly 

 Winds ; though for three or four Months together in the 

 Summer, whether the Winds are from one or the other Quar- 

 ter, the Quickfilver ftands at about thirty Inches without the 

 leaft Variation. But, with the hot fqutherly Winds, I have 

 rarely found It higher than 19 Inches, ~, which is alfo the 

 ordinary Height in ftormy wet Weather from the Weft. 



The ordinary Quantity of r/^^ ,^^^//!> 

 Water which falls ^t Algiers SfaufelT- 

 in Rain, is, at a Medium, one'^^''"^• 

 Year with another, twenty 

 feven or twenty eight Inches. 

 In the Years 1713-4 and 1714.- 5- 

 (which were looked upon as dry 

 Years) there only fell about 

 twenty four Inches; whereas 

 ini7go-i (which may be placed 

 among the wet Years) the 

 Quantity was upwardsof thirty. 

 The Rains were ftill more co- 

 pious^;^. 17 3 X- 3, amounting to 

 more than forty four Inches : 

 but this wasfuch an extraordi- 

 nary Year forRain,that the like 

 had been rarely known in This 

 Climate. TheShowers, particu- 

 larly 6>i5?o^. 1 5". and No'u. 11. 

 werefo remarkably heavy and 

 frequent, that the Pipes, con- 

 trived to convey the rain Water 

 from the Terraces, were not 

 wide enough to receive it. In 

 Fehruary and March 17x7-8 

 it rained forty Day sfucceiTively 

 at Tunis 'j but 1 have not known 

 the like Inftance at .Algiers', 

 where the ordinary Time fel• 

 dom exceedstwoorthreeDays, 

 after which we have ufually 

 a Week, a Fortnight or more 

 of fair and good Weather. 

 It is feldom known to rain in this Climate during the Summer r>&^ ,^/,,,,^ 

 Seafon; and in moft Parts of the Sahara, particularly in the£^^^^ ^"'"-^ 

 Jereedj They have rarely any Rain at all. When I was at 



I ii X Tozer 



Jan. 



Feb. 



6 

 ii 



IT 



18 



2 

 6 



1 



8 



ir 



2.0 

 ^4 



2(i 

 28 

 30 

 13 

 \β 



19 



7 



March 



Apr. 



May 



13 



19 



% 



6 



7 



8 



ii 



13 



14 



IT 



19 



I 



4 



9 



16 



17 

 30 



30, 68. 



44, 2.7. 



