24 THE CLIMATE OF MACKAY. 
There have been five hurricanes recorded in Northern Queens- 
land since 1860 :— 
Jan. 20, 1 
Feb. 9, 1 
Mar. 2, een at Townsville (see Messrs. Rawson’s pees 
Jan, 22, 1874, at Ase esa ‘ 
Feb. 22, 1875, at Bowen e % 
The floods in the river, on record, are those of ss 1867, 1874, — 
and 1875, oe with the hurricanes and hea 
In March, 5, the river rose up to within 4 feet of the 1875 
flood-marks. The ooze deposited by the floods is great ; aiter 
flood of March, 1881, this yon I measured cakes of ooze varying 
from ? to 1% in in thickne 
In July, 1880, nee was a storm, the records of which taken at 
the Alexandra are as follows: 
. duly u. tolies of wind in 24 hours, 56 miles; rainfall 1 a inches, 
. 3 3° 
o? 13. af 
” 0 ” ”? 
9 93 30 >> ”” 1 ‘14 ” 
the rains; it rises gra dually from parm to J une, falls 
more rapidly, attaining its mean lowest point in November, then 
rises slightly in December and rapidly in January. When the 
~— temperature for the four years 1876, 18: 
187 9, and 18 1880, reduced from the maximum Sa minim 
observations at the Hollow, is = 31° F.; that as pier 1856 2 
1875, is 625. The mean minimum is 62-7, and the mean 
r yea i 
April (four years) being 73-4, isthe nearest approach to the annua 
ome vious to 1876 the only temperature observations OP 
record are those of the year 1868, taken by Mr. Davidson at the 
Alexandra. 
December is the hottest month, the mean temperature decre 
slowly until March, when the decrease is at the rate of four degre 
per month, until the lowest mean (60-6) is reached in July, when 
the rise is at the rate of five degrees per month until t the mean of 
October is attained ; the rise ig rapid in N. — whose meanly 
only 1-2 degrees less than that of Decembe 
