RAIN SEASON-. 261 



it goes north. In mid Europe, in Germany, 

 there is no more of this regular setting in of a dry 

 season. But there rainy weather may come at all 

 times, wherever the north-east or the south-west 

 wind may be prevalent. There it rains oftenest 

 in autumn and in spring, but yet the hardest 

 and most plentiful showers fall in the middle of 

 summer. 



The amount of rain that falls at different places 

 has been compared by taking the depth to which 

 the soil would be covered by all the rain received 

 during the year. According to this, the niean 

 amounts of rain at the places named below, are as 

 follow : — 



