PERIODICITY OF GOOD AND BAD SEASONS. 95 
Year. List of Droughts of the A Series. 
1144 Drought during all harvest and long after in England. 
1125 1123-4, terrible drought in France and Germany.( Walford) 
1106 Drought in England. (Walford.) 
1087 No record. 
1068 1064, drought in Egypt for seven years. (Modern Egypt.) 
This is probably E united to A. 
et No record. 
1030 
1011 1012, drought in England and Germany. 
992 993, vegetation was burnt up by the sun as if by fire. 
(Eng. Mech., Vol. xxx1x., p. 506. 
973 975, the great famine of Paris. 
935 >No record. 
897 The water supply of Italy, France, and Germany was 
entirely dried up by drought; vast numbers of peasants 
were struck down by the intense heat of the sun. (Zng. 
Mech., Vol. xxx1x., p. 506. 
764 762, long and terrible heat, Britain ; 7 67, great drought 
in Asia, A and B united. 
645 Great drought in England. 
479 480, drought in Scotland. 
460 No record. 
441 439, drought in Britain. 
APPENDIX II. 
List of Droughts of the D Series. 
1895 Drought in New South Wales. 
Red rain, April 10, 1896. Drought in England. 
1894, a terrible drought in Antiqua, West Indies. | 
1896, farmers in Spain are being ruined by protracted 
drought, (Sydney Morning Herald.) 
1895, drought in Norfolk Island. 
1896, excessively high temperatures in India. 
