﻿PHYSICAL 
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  For 
  like 
  reason 
  I 
  have 
  omitted 
  the 
  stations 
  of 
  Rangoon 
  and 
  Bassein, 
  

   as 
  though 
  they 
  belong 
  geographically 
  to 
  the 
  estuary 
  stations, 
  yet 
  from 
  

   some 
  cause 
  or 
  other 
  their 
  rainfall 
  approximates 
  more 
  with 
  the 
  lesser 
  fall 
  

   of 
  the 
  littoral 
  zone. 
  Perhaps 
  in 
  reality, 
  the 
  littoral 
  rainfall, 
  and 
  that 
  

   of 
  the 
  sub-littoral, 
  or 
  estuary 
  region, 
  should 
  properly 
  be 
  regarded 
  as 
  one, 
  

   and 
  the 
  very 
  high 
  rainfall 
  derived 
  from 
  such 
  tidal 
  or 
  quasi 
  tidal 
  stations, 
  

   as 
  Tavoy, 
  Moulmein, 
  Shuaygyin, 
  and 
  Sandoway, 
  be 
  regarded 
  as 
  due, 
  as 
  it 
  

   no 
  doubt 
  is, 
  to 
  purely 
  local 
  circumstances, 
  causing 
  an 
  increased 
  con- 
  

   densation 
  of 
  aqueous 
  vapour 
  at 
  these 
  points. 
  The 
  fall, 
  however, 
  at 
  those 
  

   stations, 
  whatever 
  may 
  be 
  the 
  reason 
  of 
  it, 
  exhibits 
  too 
  great 
  and 
  strik- 
  

   ing 
  a 
  difference 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  estuary 
  region, 
  to 
  permit 
  of 
  

   passing 
  it 
  by, 
  or 
  of 
  confusing 
  all 
  attempts 
  at 
  classifying 
  meteorological 
  

   phenomena, 
  by 
  making 
  it 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  factors 
  for 
  obtaining 
  a 
  general 
  mean 
  

   rainfall 
  for 
  the 
  entire 
  Province, 
  as 
  was 
  attempted 
  by 
  the 
  compilers 
  of 
  

   the 
  Administration 
  Report 
  previously 
  quoted. 
  

  

  Another 
  station 
  presenting 
  an 
  abnormal 
  rainfall 
  is 
  Tonghoo. 
  Its 
  

   position 
  is 
  clearly 
  that 
  of 
  an 
  inland 
  station, 
  but 
  it 
  has 
  double 
  the 
  

   rainfall 
  of 
  the 
  inland 
  stations 
  lying 
  in 
  the 
  Irrawadi 
  valley, 
  and 
  it 
  cannot 
  

   be 
  properly 
  included 
  in 
  an 
  analysis 
  of 
  the 
  climate 
  of 
  Pegu, 
  being 
  also 
  

   geographically 
  excluded 
  therefrom 
  as 
  well. 
  

  

  Such 
  analysis, 
  however, 
  of 
  the 
  climate 
  of 
  Pegu 
  as 
  I 
  have 
  here 
  

   attempted 
  must 
  be 
  merely 
  considered 
  as 
  tentative 
  and 
  approximate 
  from 
  

   the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  observations 
  whereon 
  it 
  is 
  based, 
  are 
  neither 
  spread 
  

   over 
  a 
  sufficient 
  number 
  of 
  years 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  satisfactory 
  result, 
  nor 
  have 
  

   they, 
  in 
  the 
  infancy 
  of 
  meteorological 
  science 
  in 
  these 
  provinces, 
  been 
  

   kept 
  with 
  that 
  accuracy 
  which 
  can 
  alone 
  conduce 
  to 
  satisfactory 
  results. 
  

   So 
  strongly 
  indeed 
  do 
  I 
  feel 
  the 
  inutility 
  of 
  endeavoring 
  to 
  evolve 
  

   reliable 
  results 
  from 
  unreliable 
  data, 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  abandoned 
  the 
  attempt 
  

   to 
  carry 
  the 
  analysis 
  of 
  climate 
  in 
  Pegu 
  further 
  than 
  mere 
  rainfall 
  : 
  so 
  

   untrustworthy 
  are 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  statistics 
  of 
  temperature, 
  and 
  so 
  little 
  in- 
  

   terest 
  do 
  these 
  tables 
  appear 
  to 
  excite, 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  laboriously 
  compiled 
  

   table 
  of 
  temperature 
  appended 
  to 
  the 
  Administration 
  Report 
  of 
  1868-69, 
  

  

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