RAIN— MONSOONS. 173 



j","f 24.09 inches. 



•""'y 23 95 



August is's 



, S^P'ember '.'.'.'.'. li'm 



October j 06 



the greatest fall being found in June and July, and declin. 

 ing to a very small amount in October. 



The quantity of rain which sometimes falls in a short 

 time IS ve^ great. Thus, a letter from Mr. Scott says, 

 there fell at Bombay during the first twelve days of the rainy 

 season thirty-two inches of rain, so that all the roads be- 

 came like nvers. In England the average fall for the 

 whole year is thirty-two inches,— the same as fell at Bom- 

 bay in the course of twelve days. Between Bombay and 

 the southern part of the Malabar coast, places not 500 miles 

 distant from each other, very great differences prevail, both 

 in mdividual years and in the amounts of the annual means, 

 liie following are a few of the results of each:— 



Toan Amount of Rjin at Bombaj Amount of IU« on the'' 



'" '°'^'»es. Coast of Malabar in inches. 



\l\L 103"9 i36.ro 



il]l 81.14 169.19 



??1? 77.10 135.47 



1820 



1821 82.99 



'''■34 147 18 



1822 



98.44 



112.21 ....145.60 



^^'-3 • _61£0 121.67 



IMeans 85.18 136.32 



Here the average annual amount of rain differs sixty per 

 cent, within so small a geographical limit. 



From the want of obser v°ations we have no opportunity 



ot laymg before our readers any details in regard to the re- 



ative proportions in the mountainous, hilly, -flat, low, and 



littoral parts of India, nor have met with any very accurate 



registers of the daily and nightly fall. 



12. Monsoons.—Jniii^ though it approaches nearer to the 

 equa or, is not so hot as the Sandy Arabia or the adjacent 

 countnes The course of the seasons is also more rec^ular 

 and constant, and it is in this part of the world thai we 

 meet with tho.se remarkable winds-the seasonal or period- 

 ical wmds called monsoons-^^■]uch throughout Indifblow 

 nearly one-half the year from south-west to north-east, and 



