80 H. C. RUSSELL. 
Grecian, and nine from red rain, in all seventeen B.C. droughts, 
agree in supporting the cycle. 
The evidence of these droughts is very strong because it is so 
nearly unanimous; and, as we shall see presently, it receives 
support from an unexpected quarter. In passing, | may mention 
that the interval between the dates four hundred and ninety-three 
and four hundred and thirty-six is fifty-seven years, or three 
times nineteen. 
RED RAIN. 
Since I have been working at this subject there have been a 
number of red rain storms noted in this Colony, and the latest on 
April 10, suggested to me this line of investigation. Red dust is 
obviously a proof of drought somewhere, otherwise the dust could 
not rise, and since these proofs of drought are entirely apart from 
the others, and recorded not as droughts but as prodigies, which 
in days gone by created no little alarm ; it will be worth while to 
see how far they support or contradict the nineteen years cycle. . 
The result of this resolution came as a surprise to me because it 
was so unexpected, I had no idea there were so many records of 
red rains, or that they so strongly supported the nineteen years’ 
cycle. 
There are altogether sixty-nine recorded instances of the fall of 
red rain, of these I have recorded six for New South Wales. The 
first historic red rain was fourteen years after the foundation of 
the city of Rome, that is in B.C. 738, and there are nine others 
B.C., all of which fit into the nineteen years’ cycle ; between 538 
B.C. to 582 A.D. I can find no record of red rain, but from 582 
to 1896 there are fifty-nine recorded falls of red rain, and all of 
them. fit into the nineteen years’ cycle. We have here then nine 
B.C. droughts which go with the eight mentioned before to make 
seventeen B.C. droughts in support of the cycle, the remainder, 
fifty-nine, are included with a few exceptions in appendices Nos. 
1 and 2. 
