Ohjervations &c. 



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A TABLE /hewing the Qjutntity 

 of Ram that fell at Algiers in tin 



Autumn? 1730 

 Spring ri73i 



Autumn? 17 jz 

 Inches 



Several 

 drizling 

 Showers 

 in Septcni. 

 and Oiiob. 



Sprin 

 O[iob 



Indies 



c. 73- 



Octob. 



Nov. 



D:c 



Jan. 



}: 



Nov. 



c, 

 o, 



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 itands at about thirty Inches without the 

 leaft Variation, But, with the hot foutherly Winds, I have 

 rarely found It higher than 29 Inches, ~, which is alfo the 

 ordinary Height in ftormy wet Weather from the Weft. 



The ordinary Quantity ofT/,e giuamhy 

 Water which falls -^ ^giersi,^:j:i^t:. 

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

 Year with another, twenty 

 ^^"^Qw or twenty eight Inches. 

 In the Years 17x3-4 and 1724-5- 

 (which were looked upon as dry 

 Years) there only fell about 

 twenty four Inches; whereas 

 ini730-i (whichmay be placed 

 among the wet Years) the 

 Quantity was up wardsof thirty . 

 The Rains were ftill more co- 

 pious^;?. 17 3 2-5, amounting to 

 more than forty four Inches : 

 but this was fuch an extraordi-^ 

 nary Year forRain,that the like 

 had been rarely known in This 

 Climate. TheSho wers, particu- 

 larly Oc^o^. 1 5". and No'V.ii. 

 werefo remarkably heavy and 

 frequent, that the Pipes, con- 

 trived to convey the rainWater 

 from the Terraces^ were not 

 wide enough to receive it. In 

 February and March 17x7-8 

 it rainedfortyDaysfuccellively 

 at Tunis \ but 1 have not known 

 the like inftance at udlgiers • 

 where the ordinary Time fel- 

 dom exceedstwoor threeDays, 

 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^^ w,„ter 

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

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



I ii X Tozer 



Feb. 



March 

 Apr. 



9 



o 



II 



28 

 29 



30 



17 



^4 



^7 

 30 



z 

 4 



G 



7 



9 



II 



I^ 



I? 

 18 



at 



30 

 I 



17 

 19 



1.6 



19 o, 



I o, 



10 o, 



I? 0, 



»? i, 



^4 o, 



3T- 



20- 



4T- 



CO. 



4T- 



If- 

 60' 

 63. 



IT- 

 67. 



lo. 

 z6. 

 90. 



00- 



43- 

 70. 

 lo. 

 80. 

 20. 

 i^. 



35'- 

 3T- 

 8y 

 80. 



Zf. 



33- 

 (So- 



8o- 



20" 

 20- 



80. 



ST- 



03. 



13- 



Jan. 



Feb. 



March 



1 

 II 



If 



zo 



26 



28 



I 



II 



IT 

 18 



^9 



6 



1 

 8 

 ii 

 io 

 24 

 ■i.6 

 28 

 30 



13 

 \G 



19 

 7 



10 

 II 

 13 

 19 

 % 

 6 



Apr. 



May 



iz 



13 

 ^4 



19 

 I 



4 



9 



16 



17 

 30 



o, 



4> 

 o, 



3» 

 o, 

 ij 



o> 



o, 

 o, 



I> 



o, 

 o, 



o, 

 o, 

 I» 



c, 

 o, 

 o, 

 I> 

 o> 

 o, 

 Ij 

 o, 



I> 



o, 

 o, 



Oj 



I> 



o, 

 o> 

 o, 

 o, 

 r> 

 o» 

 o. 



33 



IT 

 ^T 



35- 



00 



7v 

 do 

 30 

 zo. 

 00 

 35- 

 53 

 S.° 

 43 

 10 



4f 

 50 

 33 



55- 

 00 

 10 



iv 



30, 

 30, 

 20 

 90, 



ID, 

 90, 

 40 

 30 



9T 



00 

 30 

 90 

 90 

 8y 

 6y 

 30 

 80 

 TT 

 7) 

 co 



3T 



30, 

 so, 



30, (J8. 



44, ^7- 



