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' In Western Asia the region of 10’’-25” is probably in closer 
proximity to mountains than shown in Professor Loomis’s map, 
extending far to Shiras along the mountains of southern Persia, 
and not so far to the south in southeast Syria and Mesopotamia. 
In Arabia a closer approximation of the rainy regions to the 
mountains is also what must be the case. 
is less than 50” rain, are the llanos of Venezuela re perhaps 
part of the Magdalena basin. On or near the Amazon, we 
the Madeira has 91°38” 
As to the west coast, the region of more than 75” extends 
2 or, the provinces of Esmeraldas and 
Choco being described as exceedingly rainy. Farther to the 
south T would object to giving to Chiloe and the adjacent coast 
