94 H. C. RUSSELL. 
ar. List of Droughts of the A Series. 
ee 1601 to 1603, great drought and famine in Ireland. Same 
in England. Great drought in Russia. 
1581 Drought in Persia. Red rain 1580. 1583, excessively 
hot and dry in England. 
1562 1563, drought and pestilence in India, carried off 20,000 
people. 
1543 A wonderful drought in England. 1540 to 1543, three 
years drought in India. 
1524 Severe drought in England. 
1505 1503, great drought in England. 
1486 Great drought in England. 
1467 No record. 
1448 1447, great drought in Ireland and England with heat. 
- 1429 Drought in Scotland. 
1410 Great drought in the delta of the Ganges India 1412-13. 
1391 Great drought for two years in England. 
1372 No record. 
1353 1352-3, pen drought and famine in England, France, and 
Italy. 
1334 1332, drought in Ireland. 
1315 1316, drought in England, grain was so scarce that there 
there was none to make beer. 
1296 1294, universal drought in England. 
1277 1280, drought in England for three years. 1277, all the 
largest rivers in Europe shrank to the tiniest rivulets owing 
to drought. (Hng. Mech. Vol. xxxix., p. 506). 
1258 1259, droughts in England. 1260, the Rhine, the Seine, 
the Po, and the Tiber shrank to the tiniest rivulets owing 
to drought. (Italian Essay—Zng. Mech. Vol. xxx1x., p. 506.) 
1239 Great famine in sneient, people eat their children. 
1220 No record. 
1201 Drought in Egypt. (Modern Egypt, p. 115) 
1182 Red dust 1181. Red dust 1184. 
1163 Red dust; drought and famine all over the world. 
