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temperatures, and approximate ranges of temperature for 
each month of the year : — 
Month. 
Rain- 
fall. 
Inches. 
Days. 
Mean 
Temp. 
F. 
Mean 
Max. 
F. 
Mean 
Min. 
F. 
Wind from 
January 
2-83 
6 
74 
83 
65 
N.E. 
February 
P57 
4 
76 
87 
65 
N.E. 
March 
4-67 
8 
77 
88 
66 
N.E. 
April 
9-66 
14 
78 
88 
68 
N.E-S.W. 
May 
716 
12 
78 
86 
70 
S.W. 
June 
10-17 
20 
75 
80 
70 
s.w. 
July 
6-84 
17 
75 
80 
70 
S.W. 
August 
5-96 
16 
76 
83 
69 
s.w. 
September 
6-40 
15 
76 
85 
67 
s.w. 
October 
13-18 
19 
75 
84 
66 
S.W-N.E. 
November 
9-74 
16 
74 
84 
64 
N.E. 
December 
8-07 
13 
74 
84 
64 
N.E. 
Year ... 
86-25 
160 
76 
84 
68 
— 
The figures for the temperatures are merely rough ap- 
proximations, as no regular records have been kept at 
Peradeniya. The highest recorded temperatures in the year 
rarely reach 90°, the lowest 60°. The highest rainfall in 
twenty-four hours seldom exceeds three inches, though 
almost treble this amount has been recorded. 
The rainfall of the year is well distributed, but there is a 
somewhat severe drought in the first three months of the 
year, sufficient to make the lawns look rather brown, and to 
prevent that loading of the trees with epiphytes which is 
seen in the wetter parts of the Island, and in such a garden 
as Buitenzorg, where there is more than twice the rainfall. 
Moon transferred to Peradeniya all the plants which could 
be moved from Kalutara, and laid out the south-eastern part 
of the ground, planting especially coffee and cinnamon. He 
spent much time in the investigation of the flora of the 
Colony, and collected largely in the Western Province, as 
well as near Kandy and in Uva. In 1824 he published at 
Colombo, in English and Sinhalese, his “ Catalogue of the 
