Lake George, I was much impressed with the general 

 agreement. For instance, the fearful drought 1 experienced 

 by the first colonists from 1788 to 1794 coincided with the 

 assumption that Lake George was dry during that time, 

 and again, we know that the first flood 1 the colonists experi- 

 enced occurred in Sept. 1795, which fact exactly coincided 

 with the assumption that the lake rose in that year to about 

 the same level that it reached in 1852 (namely, 12 feet) 

 57 years afterwards. 



If we may judge from the weather we have been experi- 

 encing during 1909, and the present year (1910), which, if 

 there is any truth in the theory, should be the meteoro- 

 logical counterpart of 1795-6 and 1852-3, the lake should 

 be rising again, after a similar period of drought, resulting 

 in a dry lake bed which preceded those years. In this con- 

 nection it is interesting to note that, while at Adelaide in 

 South Australia, and at Horsham in Victoria, and also that 

 portion of New South Wales to the westward of the moun- 

 tain range, they are having splendid seasons with rain 

 much above the average, similar to what they experienced 

 in 1852-3, we in Sydney, and generally along the coastal 

 region eastward of the mountain range, were afflicted with 

 drought during 1909, the rainfall up to the 31st December 

 being 15| inches below the average. The meteorological 

 conditions were similar to those in 1852, but of greater 

 intensity, the rainfall being then 4*57 inches below the 

 average. 



The description of the weather conditions experienced at 

 that time, as given in the Sydney Morning Herald, was so 

 like what we have recently had that the leading articles 

 of 27tli November, 1852, and 19th January, 1853, might 

 almost have been adopted, with but slight alteration, to 

 describe the conditions at the same dates in 1909-1910. 



It is recorded that on the 26th June, 1852, a flood 

 occurred in the Murrumbidgee River, which swept away 



1 '• History of New South Wales from the Records," Britton, 11, p. 260. 



