1848.] 



The Nizam's Diamond. 



151 



Simlah, this is about the proportion which it might be expected be- 

 forehand would fall to the lot of Patna and Delhi respectively. At 

 Bombay the average of 25 years has been stated at 76, which is greatly 

 in excess of that of Calcutta. This may be owing to the chain of 

 mountains to the east of Bombay, which probably arrests a great por- 

 tion of the clouds which would otherwise distribute themselves over 

 the Dekhun. The average fall of rain in England is stated in an Ency- 

 clopedia at 31, and that of the whole world at 34, so that Patna has 

 no reason to complain of being stinted of its fair proportion of the 

 fertilizing gift of Heaven. 



Abstract of Rain at Patna for 5f years. — (Lat. 25° 36 7 .) 





1842-3 



1843-4 



1844-5 



1845-6 



1846-7 



1847-8 



Average. 



rMay, 



June, 



Rainy ■ July, 



Season. "] August, ...... 



1 September, .... 



(^October, 



7.33 



14.06 



11.86 



10.11 



6.46 



1.54 



5.50 

 3.05 

 3.76 

 3.38 

 4.03 



3.40 

 4.95 

 9.00 

 10.78 

 4.26 



2.24 



4.74 

 9.34 

 7.20 

 7.69 



.. 84 

 65 6 



104 2 

 90 

 9 12 



.. 85 



1.66 

 2.36 

 13.10 

 16 99 

 5.37 

 4.00 













Total, 



/-November 



j December 



Dry » January, 



Season. \ February, 



1 March, 



1 April 



49.82 

 0.00 

 1.74 

 .. 11 

 .. 23 

 .. 10 

 .. 12 



21.26 



32.39 



31.21 



36.79 



43.48 

 1.39 



35.82| 







.. 60 

 .. 14 



.. 75 

 .. 60 







.. 46 

 1.53 



.. 07 

 1.19 



.. 67 



.. 75 



1 90 

 ..•07 

 .. 05 

 .. 64 





.. 05 









Total, 



2.30 



3.25 



1.47 



2.09 



2.66 





2.35 



GrandTotal of year.. 



52.12 



24.51 



33.86 



3330 



39.4 





36.65 



On the great Diamond in the possession of the Nizam. — % Henry 

 Piddington, Curator Museum Economic Geology. 



At the November meeting of the Asiatic Society Captain Fitzgerald, 

 B. A. presented for the inspection of the Society a model in lead of 

 this remarkable stone, and gave a brief note of .its history, which will 

 be found in my report for that month. He has since favoured me 

 with a more detailed one, which is as follows. 



Note by Captain Fitzgerald, Bengal Artillery , attached to the Nizam's 

 Service, on the Nizam's Diamond — 1st December. 1847. 

 "About 12 or 14 years ago a large diamond was found in the Nizam's 

 country under circumstances of rather a curious nature. The model 



