288 METEOROLOGICAL TABLE. [Cuar. XV 
The following table made from observations kept 
by the late Mr. Beale at Macao for a number of 
years, shows the amount of the average peer: 
fall of rain in inches : — 
Thermometer. ei oe og 
: Ss 34 
i] g}§| Ra 28 | A 
Bisa is 2 3 5.8 
o 3 ” 5 " 2 From| To| =3 | 233 
Sal 
January - 57 | 45|51 | 65 |29 | 30:23| 0-675 
February - -| 58 | 45 | 51-5} 68 | 33 | 30°12) 1 
March - -| 71 | 60 | 65°5| 79 |45 | 30°17} 2°150 
April - -| 76 | 69 | 72°5| 84 |59 | 80°04| 5-675 
May - -| 78 | 73 | 75:5! 86 |69 | 29°89 |11°850 
June - -| 84 | 79 | 81:5) 89 |'74 | 29°87 |11:100 
gyisi< -| 88 | 84/86 | 94/81 | 29°84} 7-750 
August - -| 86 | 83 | 84:5) 90 | 79 | 29:8 
September -| 84 | 79 | 81-5} 88 |'75 | 29-90 10-925 
October - -| 76 | 70 |73 85 |60 | 80°04) 5:500 
November - -| 68 | 61 |64°5| 79 148 | 30°14) 2°425 
December - -| 63 | 52 | 57°5| 69 |40 | 80-:25| 0-975 
Annual Means - | 74:1) 66°7, 70-4 81°3 57-6 30°03 
Total rain, 70°625 
In the north the rains also fall copiously at the 
change of the monsoons, more particularly in spring, 
at which time they are of the greatest utility to the 
crops, which are sown or planted about that time. 
Those parts of China, however, which are included 
in the temperate zone, cannot properly be said to 
have a wet and dry season in the same sense as 
these terms are generally understood in the tropics. 
The winter months which are dry at Hong-kong 
are far from having the same character, at Shanghae, 
for example, where heavy and continued falls of rain 
