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  york 
  state 
  museum 
  

  

  Table 
  No. 
  41. 
  — 
  Evaporation 
  from 
  the 
  Desplaines 
  catchment, 
  

   AS 
  given 
  by 
  differences 
  between 
  rainfall 
  and 
  runoff 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  PRECEDING 
  TABLE. 
  

  

  [Inches 
  on 
  the 
  catchment.] 
  

  

  Water 
  year. 
  S" 
  

  

  1886 
  

  

  1887 
  2.95 
  

  

  1889 
  11.80 
  

  

  1890 
  

  

  1892 
  

  

  1893 
  5.32 
  5.34 
  6.16 
  16.82 
  

  

  1^94 
  ........../ 
  6.94 
  3.07 
  10.23 
  20.24 
  

  

  1895 
  

  

  1896 
  14.18 
  9.78 
  8.93 
  32.89 
  

  

  June 
  to 
  

   August. 
  

  

  Septem- 
  

   ber 
  to 
  

   Novem- 
  

  

  5.54 
  

  

  9.97 
  

  

  5.50 
  . 
  

  

  

  10.08 
  

  

  8.05 
  

  

  

  7.11 
  

  

  7.80 
  

  

  5.52 
  

  

  5.34 
  

  

  6.16 
  

  

  3.07 
  

  

  10.23 
  

  

  10.69 
  

  

  6.94 
  

  

  9.78 
  

  

  8.93 
  

  

  Runoff 
  of 
  Muskingum 
  river. 
  In 
  table 
  No. 
  42 
  is 
  given, 
  the 
  mim 
  

   fall 
  and 
  runoff 
  record 
  for 
  Muskingum 
  river, 
  Ohio, 
  as 
  measured 
  at 
  

   Zanesville, 
  1 
  for 
  the 
  years 
  1888 
  to 
  1895, 
  inclusive, 
  the 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  

   catchment 
  above 
  the 
  point 
  of 
  measurement 
  being 
  5828 
  square 
  

   miles. 
  The 
  headwaters 
  of 
  the 
  stream 
  are 
  not 
  far 
  from 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  

   and 
  on 
  the 
  dividing 
  line 
  between 
  the 
  hill 
  country 
  of 
  the 
  east 
  and 
  

   the 
  prairie 
  country 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  valley. 
  Hence 
  this 
  stream 
  

   represents 
  conditions 
  applicable 
  to 
  the 
  runoff 
  of 
  the 
  Ohio 
  streams 
  

   tributary 
  to 
  Lake 
  Erie. 
  The 
  rainfall 
  record 
  as 
  used 
  in, 
  this 
  table 
  

   is 
  the 
  mean 
  of 
  the 
  records 
  kept 
  at 
  Akron, 
  Canton, 
  Newcomers- 
  

   town 
  and 
  Wooster, 
  and 
  may 
  be 
  considered 
  to 
  represent 
  fairly 
  well 
  

   the 
  mean 
  precipitation 
  of 
  the 
  Muskingum 
  catchment 
  area. 
  For 
  

   the 
  year 
  1892 
  the 
  total 
  rainfall 
  was 
  41.74 
  inches 
  and 
  the 
  total 
  

   runoff 
  13.38 
  inches, 
  of 
  which 
  9.06 
  occurred 
  in 
  the 
  storage 
  period. 
  

   In 
  1893 
  the 
  total 
  rainfall 
  Avas 
  42.36 
  inches, 
  with 
  a 
  total 
  runoff 
  

   of 
  16.20 
  inches, 
  the 
  runoff 
  of 
  the 
  storage 
  period 
  being 
  14.13 
  inches. 
  

  

  i 
  Survey 
  of 
  the 
  Miami 
  and 
  Erie 
  canal, 
  the 
  Ohio 
  canal, 
  etc. 
  Report 
  of 
  

   Capt 
  Hiram 
  M. 
  Chittenden, 
  Corps 
  of 
  Engineers. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Army, 
  January 
  20, 
  

   1896, 
  printed 
  as 
  House 
  Document 
  No. 
  278, 
  Fifty-fourth 
  Congress, 
  First 
  

   Session, 
  p. 
  42. 
  

  

  