82 RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. 
were 9.40; in °59, only 1.283; in 60, 1.64; and in ’62, 24.36 
inches. 
The average of February is 3.67 inches; but in 1853, the fall 
was 1.42; in 54, 8.04; in 756, 0.50; in 757, 8.59; in °58, 1.83; 
in °59, 6.32; in 60, 1.60; in ’61, 3.72; and in ’62, 7.53 inches. 
This shows a remarkable alternation. In only one year cid 
the amount approach the average; in the others (excluding 
the last), the rains were very heavy and very light by turns. 
A dry February, after a wet December and January, is one of 
the pleasantest months of the year in California. 
The average rain-fall of March is 3.88: in 1857, the amount 
was 1.62; in °58, 5.55. 
The average of April is 2.63: in 1855, the amount was 5 
inches; in 57, nothing; in 758, 1.35; ani in 759, 0.27. 
The average of May is 0.63: in 1857, the amount was 0.05; 
and in ’60, 2.86. 
The average of June is 0.08; of July, 0.02; of August, 0.03; 
and of September, 0.15. Thére are no large rains recorded in 
any of these months. 
The average of October is 0.66: but in 1854, the amount was 
2.415 and in ’58, 2.743 in 55, nothing. 
The average of November is 2.50: in 1854, the amount was 
0.34; in ’59, 7.28; and in 60, 0.58. 7 
The average of December is 4.49: in 1854, the amount was 
0.815; in 57, 8.08; in ’59, 1.57; in 60, 6.16; and in ’62, 9.54. 
The rainy season of 1854~55 did not commence, it may be 
said, until January; for although there were 2.41 inches of 
rain in October, yet the amount was only 0.34 in November, 
and 0.81 in December: so that the moisture from the October 
rain did no good to either the farmer or the miner, having 
been completely dried out from the earth before the rains of 
January came. 
Let us now examine the rainy seasons since 1350, and see 
in what months more than three inches of rain fell. In 1851- 
’52, these months were December and March ; in ’52~53, De- 
cember, January, and March; in ’53~54, January, February, 
