52 T. W. KEELE. 



ll'J'i Eiujlmul — '"Great tio<»U in March from rains." 

 1199 England — "Serious floods from rains." 

 Wet period five cycles of 171 years back from 1875 - 1883 

 1020 - 1028 

 1025 England— "Famine from rains and plague." 



Wet period six cycles of 171 years back from 1875-1883 



of quinsy." 

 Wet period eight cycles back from 1875-1883 

 507-515 

 515 Britain— "Most afflictive famine." 



Sufficient has been said to show that at intervals of 171 

 years, or multiples thereof, the abnormal wet period from 

 1875 to 1883, as shown in the diagram, has been repeated, 

 and it would appear that about 26 or 27 years after the 

 termination of these rains a period of serious decline com- 

 mences, as shown by the British rainfall curve. Mr. 

 Watford's tables of famines, droughts, and frosts prove this 

 conclusively. The evidence is, however, so voluminous 

 that I have prepared the tables to form an appendix to this 

 paper. 



Concerning the decline in the British rainfall mentioned 

 above, if the Nile curve be compared with it, it will be 

 seen that during the period of 30 years onwards from 1738, 

 while the Nile shows a steady, persistent rise, resulting 

 from the rains on the Abyssinian tableland being almost 

 continually in excess of the mean, (and it should be remem- 

 bered that this fact has been confirmed by several explorers, 

 as stated by Captain Lyons, there being only seven years 

 out of thirty years below the mean), the British rainfall 

 curve shows an equally persistent, but much more rapid, 

 fall, owing to the rainfall over Britain during the same 

 period being practically all below the mean, there being 



