244 On the Climate of Nagpur. [Mar, 
In the month of August, however, and more especially in September, 
there have been occasionally north or south easterly winds, and some of 
these have been attended with heavy falls of rain.” 
Fourth quarter of 1831.—‘‘ The weather throughout the quarter 
has shewn little of that settled appearance which formed its principal 
feature in the same period of last year, and which is usual at this season. 
A greater tendency to the formation of cloudy masses upon the sky, 
and the frequent deposition of rain from these, has continued to prevail 
after the termination of the usual rainy months, than was manifested 
during the same period of 1830, and has given altogether to the pre- 
sent season the peculiarity of a combination of cold and moisture; but, 
at the same time, a less degree of extreme heat and cold, than are usual 
at Kampté at this period of the year. The rain has fallen particularly 
from the 15th to the 20th of October, in the first and last week of 
November, and in the beginning, and from the 15th to the 26th of 
December. ‘The winds have in the intervals of settled weather fol- 
lowed their usual course in these months, of blowing slightly from the 
eastward in the fore and afternoons, and occasionally in the evening ; 
while, in the night and morning, there has either been a calm, or a 
slight wind from the westward. In the more unsettled portions of the 
quarter, the wind has either been irregular, or modified by the presence: 
or passage of raining clouds, or it has shifted from either the north- 
east or south, to another quarter, from whence it has blown for a day 
or two, and the chADeR has been generally attended by a greater or less 
degree of rains.’ 
First half yearly return of 1832.—‘ The period, comprising the. 
last half of the cold season, the whole of the hot-weather, and the 
commencement of the rains, has altogether been a favourable one with 
respect to the health of the regiment : and this circumstance appears to 
be referrible to the genial nature of the season, the temperature of 
which remained cool to a much later period than is usual; while along 
with this coolness, there has been more generally present a dry state 
of the atmosphere, than in the same seasons of the preceding years. 
The extreme heat, in the table prefixed, of Fahrenheit’s thermometer ap- 
pears greater, from the observations being taken in the two latter 
months, on a registering thermometer, and the records being made 
from the hottest period of the day. The general features of the wea- 
ther have, as recorded in former reports, consisted, in the early 
part of the half year, of cool, generally cloudless, days, with little wind, 
diversified on the 20th of February by a considerable fall of rain, with 
wind from the eastward ; and, latterly, until the 8th of June there has 
been a gradual or irregular increase of temperature, with occasional 
