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On the Climate of Fattehpiir Sicrt. 
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stalactites, and the floor of it, at the entrance, strewed to a greater depth 
than I could remove them, with those singular globular concretions, of 
which it has puzzled mineralogists and geologists, to account for the forma- 
tion. The entrance not being straight we soon lost the day light; after 
which, about 50 paces brought us to a chimney, up which we climbed some 
distance, and then turning to the right, through a horizontal hole, came to 
a difficult passage, of about forty feet ; then a descent, another turn to the right, 
and a further passage, of about 50 yards, brought us to another chimney, after 
climbing which, we found ourselves in an oven-shaped cell, about 50 feet in diame- 
ter, and perhaps as many in height: in this hall there are stalagmite pillars up 
to three or four feet high, and large masses of sparkling stalactites, hanging 
down from the roof. The Kasiah people have a tradition of its being the resi- 
dence of a spirit, named Bubun, and are afraid to enter it without visitors. 
After leaving the cavern, we returned to the village of Musmai, and proceed- 
ing along the tops of the precipices of the northern side of the valley, visited 
two beautiful waterfalls ; the smallest, by our measurement, was 158 feet, being a 
single fall of one branch of the stream, which bounds the Sanatarium. This 
we viewed only from above ; but myself, and one or two more of the party, 
scrambled down to the bottom of the other, which must be between 250 and 300 
feet and formed a much more beautiful scene altogether than the first, both as 
regai-ds the dell into which its falls, and from the greater magnitude of the 
t J 0Ulth d Z: f f 0j0 r’ We Vi8ited ° nly the bazar of C*nrra, where, though 
there were a multitude of females assembled, there was no noise, or scolding. If 
ff aster tb Wer ! n0t S :: dirtyj their g00d tempers, and freedom from prejudice 
rea lv v V S" t0 ‘ ruth ’ a * d ‘heir honesty, would render them 
really valuable servants. 
wll:;:-A, C 0 U,d u~ y0UtO makea tri P «*!»><*■ September; ament!, 
winch it is always desirable to avoid in the plains of Bengal. 
. . a . ^ ew geological specimens, and some curious insects, collected 
during our excursion. n 
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VI — On the Climate of Fattehpur Sicri. 
With reference to the remarks at na o-p A fA . .. XT 
I Offer a statement for one year of the ? Number ° f tbe GIcam ” gS ’ 
at 9 hours 13 minutes a. m. and ’ 8h 27, “jf® 111 .* 3 of dalI P observations taken 
perature of the 24 bn • , ' ‘ P ' M * ^ tbe tlmes at which the mean tem- 
pared Wth tie mo , 9 , " W “ * the Leith h °“ rl y observations to occur,) com- 
tions taken at 2 “ ^ T * emI>eratare obt »iaed from the means of dailyobserra- 
hours The ob ^ and 81 3 -• the coItet a ° d warmest periods of the 24 
lona-itnrlP fino av , ^ ~ at Fatteh P*ir, north latitude 25° 56'; east 
of deep well water, ta “urthe^nabl'T dt WhiCh ’ by ” any obsemti ° nS 
for two vpars f i established by a series of daily observations 
and which mnTb 27 , ’ ^ ‘° Se » ,e “ bCT > I828 > a ‘ «-*• aad 3 * 
barometer “dtthe"! “ re8ul * 78 °.«-The mean pressure of the 
table was 29 293' l ,1 "nl” 8 , P° lnt , m the year exhibited in the subjoined 
less than the ’inn,! i™. ^ f “ 15 was inches 26 . 36 i being about 10 inches 
agreeably to the ide a ' eraSe ' T ie eva Poration calculated by Galbraith's Tables, 
biy to the idea suggested m Daniel's Meteorological Essays, was 97 imW 
