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warmest and leust humid half of the year, is approximately three gallons 
for each square yard, which cannot, I think, he regarded as in any way 
excessive.* When, however, as in the same six months tlie supply is 
reduced throughout nearly the whole of hliigland, as it was last year, to 
ahout two gallons a s(iuare yard per week, little wonder will be felt if 
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vegetation generally in the districts affected strongly resented such 
niggardly treatment. 
On examining the rainfall records for these districts a little more 
■closely, it soon became evident that in most of them, during two of the 
six months in question, the fall of rain was rather in excess of the average 
than otherwise. Indeed, it is only when the great drought of that year 
is reduced to its true limits — from the beginning of June to the middle 
* 1 calculate that a gallon of water would be required to saturate a layer of dry soil 
-a yard square to the depth of about an inch. 
