242 On the Climate of Nagpir. [May, 
Extracts of Meteorological Remarks made in the Periodical Returns from the 
Medical Department of the Right Wing, Madras European Regiment, stationed 
at Kamptt. 
First quarter of 1831.—‘‘ The period includes the last half of 
the cold and the commencement of the hot season. In January of the 
present quarter, the sky was for the most part clear throughout the 
month, the cloudy appearances never extending beyond a little cirrus, 
or cirro-cumulus, or a few cumuli dissolving in the evening ; and the 
wind was most generally from some part of the west in the morning, 
and the east in the course of the day, but seldom blowing with great 
strength from any quarter, or continuing past sunset. The last day of 
January and first five days of February exhibited appearances of a more 
moist state of the atmosphere, with a greater variety in the cloudy for- 
mations, and there was a slight rain through the greater part of the 
second of this month, and again more heavily in the afternoon of the 
fourth. During the remainder of February, likewise, a greater degree of 
humidity prevailed, than in January, and nimbal masses were frequent- 
ly to be seen around the horizon in the afternoon, or evening. The 
sky was generally covered with a layer, more or less dense or irregular, 
of a cirro-cumulous nature in the morning, and from this occasionally a 
few drops of rain were found to fall about sunrise, while cumuli succeed- 
ed to this in the course of the day. On the third the sky was obscured 
by a fog in the morning, and again on the 2ist and 22nd a less degree 
of this description of cloud was present at the same time, in either case 
ending in cumuli. These cumuli, from whatever source originating, 
often changed into cirro-cumuli in the evening, and in other cases 
went on at an earlier part of the day, to form cumulo-strati, or nimbal 
clouds on various parts of the horizon. Excepting from the latter clouds, 
cirrus was but rarely seen, and there were only three perfectly 
clear days throughout the month. The wind, which was occasionally 
modified in the afternoon by the presence of clouds, observed the same 
general course as in January; but occasionally southerly wind began 
early in the forenoon, changing afterwards to one from the north-east, 
and this also was often found blowing more steadily than in the pre- 
ceding month. The month of March presented occasional short peri- 
ods of a moist description, having cumulo-stratus masses formed in the 
afternoon, and from one of these a considerable fall of rain took place 
on the night of the 10th. At other times, the appearances were much like 
those of the preceding months, but in a less degree, and the wind in 
general followed the same course as in February.” 
Second quarter of -1831.—‘ This period, as mentioned in former 
report, includes the height of the hot season, and the commencement of 
