evi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII , 
curve, and that it was dry, by the rapid drop from near satu- 
ration to a humidity of 20%. 
Tn the higher curves of August, three months later during 
a weak period in the monsoon, it is seen that the conditions 
damp and rainbearing winds had increased from 1,000 m. to 
over 2,000 m. Again there appeared above this current the 
almost complete dryness; and it may perhaps be concluded 
that the main differences between premonsoon conditions and 
those of a weak and of a strong monsoon lie in the thickness 
of the damp sea-current which is being dynamically cooled on 
rising over the inland ground surface or on being forced other- 
wise to rise by confluence of currents. An interesting point 
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evening came on, just as a “land and sea breeze” is known 
to do. 
27. A kite which is out of adjustment, or flying in a 
wind too strong for it, is liable to dive and circle in the air, 
and will then give one a very anxious time. In each downward 
course it will pull viciously on its tetherwire and may break 
it; and on ascending on the opposite side of the circle will 
lameter equal to or greater than the height of the kite, 
and in the latter case the result will be a complete wrecking 
