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1771, the quantity that fell in the fame seeeisinmiyis. was 
41.355 inches in the fame fpace *. 
In 1770, Auguft was the rainy month; in 1771 July. Both 
thefe years the people paid the meery, and the Wafaa Ullah 
was in Auguft. When July is the rainy month, the rains. 
generally ceafe for fome days in the beginning of Auguft, 
and then a prodigious deal falls in the latter end of that 
month and the firft week of September. _ In other years, July 
and Auguft are the violent rainy months, whilft June is 
fair. And laftly, in others, May, June, July, Auguft and the 
firft week of September. Now we {hall fuppofe (which is. 
the moft common cafe of all) that every month from June. 
doubles its rain. The Wafaa Ullah generally takes place a- 
bout the 9th of Auguft, the tribute being then due, and 
all attention to the Mikeas is abandoned at 14 real peeks, 
the Califh is then cut, and the water let down.to the Delta. 
Now thefe 14 peeks are not a proof. how much water 
there is to overflow the land; for fuppofing nine days for 
its paflage from. Ethiopia, then the gth of Auguft receives 
at Cairo no later rains than thofe that have fallen the 1ft 
of Auguft in Ethiopia, and, from that date till the 17th of 
September, the Nile increafes one third of its. whole inunda- 
tion, which is never fuffered to appear on the Mikeas, but 
is turned: down to the lakes in the Delta, as I fuppofe it al- 
ways has been; fo that the quantity of water which falls 
in Ethiopia hath never yet been.afcertained, and never can 
be by the Mikeas, nor can it ever be known what quantity - 
of 
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* See Table, or Regifter of Rain, that fell in thefe years, inferted at the end of this yolume. 
