78 H. C. RUSSELL. 
(18) 572 B.C., rained blood on the squares of Vulcan and Con- 
cordia for two days, 2,414 years before 1842, interval 
19x127+1. (E) 
(19) 570 B.C. The beginning of same drought as No. 18. 
(20) 538 B.C., blood rain in Rome 2,376 years before 1838, 
interval 19 x 25 +1. 
We have in this list (omitting 13, 14, and 17) seventeen B.C. 
droughts, all of which with one exception, fit.into our nineteen 
years’ cycle. If these dates are examined apart from their con- 
nection with Australian droughts, we find that the intervals 
between them, are multiples of nineteen years, which shows, that 
droughts recurred then as now, in cycles of nineteen years, and 
this is very strong evidence in favour of our theory. The more 
so when it is remembered that all the B.C. droughts I have been 
able to find, except one, do fit in; they are not a series selected 
out of many, for the purpose of supporting the nineteen years 
period, but they are all that can be found. Again taking the 
dates given in history, the intervals between these B.C. droughts 
and ours in Australia are multiples as we have just seen of nine- 
teen years. 
If it be objected that chronologists have grave doubts as to the 
accuracy of B.C. dates, I reply that whether they be correct or 
not, it is quite certain that histcrians did not purposely arrange 
the dates in order to make them fit into a cycle, running amongst 
these droughts, that was unknown to them, or to make them fit 
into the Australian cycle, which had not even been discovered. 
These drought dates are well marked points in ancient history, 
and the fact that they fit into a cycle, supported by all the known 
droughts of the last thousand years of the world’s history, is in 
strong confirmation of the accuracy of these B.C. dates. 
The figures show that Elijah’s prediction was a repetition of 
Pharaoh’s drought 42 x 19 years after it ; also Elisha’s prediction 
was nineteen years after Elijah’s, and it is noteworthy that the 
drought in David’s time, although it does not appear to have 
