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THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALASIA 



and also of that in the areas over which the 

 moisture has had to pass ; and the temperature 

 of the ground depends on the winds, on the 

 cloudiness of the sky at night, on the tem- 



FIG. 14. Rainfall map of New South Wales for 1899, shaded area 

 showing where the rainfall was above the average. (After Russell). 



perature of the adjacent sea, on the amount 

 of dust in the air, and on other factors. 

 Whether the moisture will reach any given 

 locality, and, if so, whether it will fall there, 

 depends on such a complicated series of con- 

 ditions, that it is idle to seek for any precise 



