156 TABLES AND RESULTS OF THE PRECIPITATION, 



Diagram 6. Diagram 1. 



fill HIT II I 



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fluctuations m THE annual rain fall 



Croup n.— Slate of New York with some adjacent localities. 



fluctuations in the annual rain fall 



Group IV .—YaMey of the Ohio Eiver; Ohio to Eastern Jfiseoitri. 



These fluctuations can be compared and studied to better advantage by means 

 of a graphical representation of the successive means (of the 4th order as given in 

 the table); these are given in Diagram 8, 



