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Average fall of Bain — At Bombay for 30, and Calcutta and 

 Madras for 8 years, near the level of the sea : — 





Madras. 



Bombay. 



Calcutta. 



January, 



3.50 



.0 



0.71 



February, . 



2.00 



.0 



0.55 



March, 



0.25 



.0 



1.10 



April, 



0.22 



.0 



2.95 



May, . 



5.00 



.0 



4.59 



June, . 



1.80 



22.13 



12.74 



July, . 



2.80 



24.88 



13.15 



August, 



3.30 



16.77 



16.82 



September, . 



5.50 



11.05 



7.83 



October, 



9.40 



1.25 



4.83 



November, . 



10.30 



.0 



.82 



December, . 



8.20 



.0* 



.50 



Total, . . 52.27 76.08 66.59 



Remarkable Falls of Rain in India and other parts of 

 the World.— At Geneva, 25th October 1822, 32 inches fell in 

 twenty-four hours ; at Flangurques, 6th September 1801, 14 

 inches fell in eighteen hours ; on the 20th May 1827, 6 inches 

 fell at Geneva in three hours ; at Perth, on the 3d August 

 1829, four-fifths of an inch fell in half-an-hour ; on the 22d 

 November 1826, nine-tenths of an inch fell at Naples in thirty- 

 seven minutes. — Forbes, Rep. Brit. As. 1840. 



In India. — At Mahabaleshwar, in 1834, 302 inches fell in 

 one hundred days ; on the 4th of October 1846, 10 inches fell 

 at Chittledrooj in twenty-four hours ; at Bombay, in 1 844, 7J 

 inches fell in twenty-four hours ; 2 inches fell in seventy 

 minutes on the 1st, 9.43 inches on the 10th, and 12 inches 

 on the 26th July 1849.— Sykes, Phil. Trans. 1850 ; Rep. 

 Brit. As. 1849. 



At Rajkote, on the 26th and 27th July 1850, 26 inches fell 

 in twenty-four hours, and 35 inches in 36 hours ; 7 inches 

 fell in one hour and a half at Ahmed. 



With this general review of the principal physical features 

 and climate of India, we may next pass to some of the leading 

 peculiarities of the ocean which surrounds it, and here I may 

 perhaps be permitted to quote from what has already ap- 

 peared in the Transactions of the Bombay Geographical 

 Society, a work so little known in this country, that there is 



* Occasional showers occur at Bombay sometimes all the year round, of which 

 no account has been published in the Register. The majority of years are 

 rainless from October to June. 



