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TABLE III. 

 SPRING DROUGHTS. 



Year. 



Began. 



Ended. 



Dys. 



Year. 



Began. 



Ended. 



Dys. 



1844 



April 24 



March 18 



21 



1863 



March 21 



April 7 



18 



1850 



March 3 



March 22 



20 



1870 



March 26 



April 9 



15 



1852 



March 4 



March 29 



26 



1870 



April 11 



April 29 



19 



1852 



April 2 



April 22 



21 



1872 



April 4 



April 20 



17 



1854 



March 20 



April 20 



82 



1874 



April 15 



May 3 



19 



1855 



April 15 



May 12 



18 



1875 



March 21 



April 4 



15 



1858 



March 15 



March 30 



16 



1880 



January 10 



January 28 



19 



1858 



April 10 



April 25 



16 



1880 



March 28 



April 30 



33 



1861 



April 9 



April 27 



19 



1893 | March 18 



April 21 



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Another point to which attention may be drawn is the 

 fact that several of the droughts follow each other imme- 

 diately, being, in fact, interrupted only. That is the case with 

 the present (1893) one, it having commenced on the 18th of 

 March, was interrupted on the 21st and 28th of April, and 

 continued again to the 14th of May, when after an eight day 

 interval, it was again renewed for thirty days, finally ending 

 with the 22nd of June. In 1851 a drought began on the 19th 

 of May, lasted twenty days, was interrupted for seven days, 

 then recommenced and lasted twenty-four days. In 1852, 

 began on the 4th of March, lasted twenty-six days, was inter- 

 rupted for three days, then recommenced and lasted for 

 twenty-one days. In 1856, from May 29th to July 7th, we 

 had two intervals of fifteen days. In 1861, from April 9th to 

 May 27th, we had two intervals of nineteen and fifteen days. 

 In 1860, from June 6th to July 12th, we had two intervals of 

 sixteen and twenty days. In 1869, from June 21st to Sep- 

 tember 4th, we had two intervals of thirty-five and twenty-one 

 days. In 1870, from May 17th to July 3rd, we had three 

 intervals of sixteen, sixteen and fifteen days. This was fol- 

 lowed by another period of fourteen days, but just one day 

 short of a drought, and again by a twenty-one days' drought. 

 In 1874, from April 15th to June 2nd, we had two intervals of 

 nineteen and twenty-two days. All these with many other 

 partial droughts will be more fully considered under Part II. 

 That of this year gave three intervals, viz. : thirty-five, fifteen 

 and thirty days. 



PART II. 

 PARTIAL DROUGHTS. 



Twenty-eight partial droughts have occurred during the 

 period under consideration. These have ranged from twenty- 



