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Notes on the Injluence 



[No. 3G, 



brought (by the natural slope of the ground) to the surface within a 

 few hundred yards, and fine streams obtained for irrigation even in 

 the month of April. These springs were neither the result of forest 

 tracts, nor of the condensation of vapours by elevated mountain 

 chains, but had their origin in the mass of elevated land to the west 

 of Raidroog which is some hundred feet higher, and some remarks 

 on which, and the Soondoor mountains) I submitted to Government 

 in my report of 2 1st October, 1846. 



Dry and hot as the climate of Bellary has been considered, and 

 disagreeable as it certainly is during the hot months of May and June, 

 I do not observe such differences in the actual temperature, &:c. as 

 might perhaps have been supposed to exist. 



From some observations made in the year 1824, I find the mean 

 temperature to be in the month of : 



5 A. M. 3 p. M. f 



April 76° 9l| V hot season. 



May 79° 93^3 



While, at Madras, in June 81^ ^^-^hot .ea.on 



July 81 1 9 j^i^ hot season. 



The comparative low temperature with light westerly air at day- 

 break at Bellary is, if I recollect correctly, a remarkable feature 

 in its climate. It seemed to me to be caused by the strong sea 

 breezes on the western coast at that season, and which reaching 

 Darwar by the afternoon or evening, at the rate of 12 or 15 miles per 

 hour, arrives at Bellary in the middle of the night or towards morn- 

 ing, where the rapid absorption of the vapour necessarily produces a 

 fall of temperature. 



I have traced the strong sea breezes of the Malabar coast near- 

 ly all across the Peninsula on different lines. At Seringapatam we 

 used to look anxiously for its approach in the months of April and 

 May, and where it generally arrived nearly as at Darwar about 8 or 

 9 p. M., causing an instant rise of several degrees on Saussure's hair 

 hygrometer, and most agreeable to the feelings. 



For instance in 1828: 



Saussure's 

 Temp. Hair Hygror, 



17th March at 5i p. m 87° 1^ 



9 , 84° .51° 



14th May..,. H . 88° 18° 



%l 85® ......54° 



