1843.1 



and Soobathoo for 1819-20-21. 



767 



A general Statement of the Weather, for 1821. 



1821. 



January, 



February, 



March, 



April, 



May, 



June, 



July, 



August, 



September, 



October, 



November, 



December, 



Total, 



Clear 



Fair 

 days. 



11 

 11 



18 



18 



15 



18 



none. 



none. 



6 



25 



19 



14 



12 



14 



5 



9 



6 



4 



10 



12 



8 



1 



9 

 12 



Rainy and 

 stormy, snow 

 and hail days 



155 i 102 



8 



3 



8 



3 



10 



8 



21 



19 



16 



5 



2 



5 



108 



Thunder 

 days. 



none. 



2 

 none. 

 I 



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Note.— It appears necessary here to remark, that during the years 1819-20 and 21, 

 Simla was no place of resort for invalids and visitors, except for few officers belong- 

 ing to the 1st Nusseeree Battalion stationed at Soobathoo, and thither they proceeded 

 for the hottest months, May and June, till the rains had fairly set in. In 1819, a double- 

 poled tent was pitched by Lieutenant, now Lieutenant Colonel R. Ross, on the north- 

 west extremity of the ridge, immediately above the small village of Simla, and afterwards 

 thatched over, having for its walls, spars, grass and mud as a protection from the weather, 

 and being on the site of the Commander-in-Chief (Sir H. Fane's,) now Major General 

 Lumley's house. In 1822, the first permanant cottage, of the usual materials, stone and 

 timber, roofed with pine wood shingles, was erected on a rising ground on a small 

 height on the same ridge by Captain, now Major C P. Kennedy, the successorof 

 Lieutenant R. Ross, as Assistant Political Agent for the Protected Hill States, and 

 although the out-post of Kotgurh is 650 or 7U0 feet lower in elevation than Simla, 

 being four long marches beyond it, and further into the interior, and not subject to the 

 influence of the plains, which Simla is in a more or less degree, yet the temperature at 

 Kotgurh for the above years will give a very fair notion of that which may be gene- 

 rally experienced at Simla, as in subsequent years, on comparison, the average 

 temperature of the former place, proved only to be a trifle lower than that observed 

 and recorded at the latter. 



P. Gerard. 



