6O THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALASIA 



Sydney, it is light in the interior. This fact 

 is illustrated for the whole of New South 

 Wales by the instructive rainfall maps of that 

 State, prepared by Dr. Russell. The shaded 

 areas in the maps (figs. 13 and 14) are the 

 districts where the rainfall was above the 

 average ; and the plain areas are districts where 

 the rainfall was below the average. In the 



FIG. 1 2. Departures from average rainfall on coast and interior of New 

 South Wales. 



year 1894, the whole of the inland or western 

 district had a heavier rainfall than usual, while 

 the coastlands had less than their average. 

 The reverse arrangement is shown for the year 

 1899. The balance of the coastal and inland 

 conditions is not always shewn with such 

 diagrammatic simplicity, for in some years the 

 coastal and continental rainfalls are both above 

 the average, owing no doubt to an increase in 



