¢_ tt in a steady rain, after the first day, , 5 per 
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may be called heavy rain, and from the nature of the country it 
and it forms but a very small proportion of the running water in 
wn that in a dry year 39 per cent. of the rain passed down the 
shown issi loods in the Hunter River 
n by the Royal Commission on Floods 1 cap 2 eg 
ow, I may as well add, for 
omparison, what figures show as the percentage of rain passing 
down the Darin eae pats are certainly in excess of the truth. 
In 1880, less than’ 1 per cent. of the rainfall 
rke ; in 
1881, less than a tenth of 1 per cent. (0-08) ; and in 1882, about 
