OBSERVATIONS TAKEN IN INDIA. 
353 
Bombay, 1849. Rain-fall. 
Colabah 
Observatory. 
Fort. 
Esplanade. 
Byculla. 
Chinchpoogly. 
Airy Cottage, 
Mazagon. 
Agricultural 
garden, Parell. 
Parell 
Flagstaff. 
Parell Hill. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
1 
0*86 
0-36 
0-28 
0-40 
0-00 
0-35 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
2 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-04 
0-35 
0-00 
0-30 
3 
0-39 
0-14 
0-00 
0-06 
0-00 
0-03 
0-05 
0-06 
0-05 
4 
0-39 
0-55 
0-76 
0-58 
0-00 
0-70 
0-66 
1-23 
0-55 
5 
0-31 
0-21 
0-12 
0-08 
0-00 I 
0-55 
0-80 
0-55 
6 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-02 
0-00 / 
l-oU 
L 
0-30 
0-46 
0-25 
7 
0*25 
0-10 
0-06 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
8 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-04 
0-00 
0-00 
0-10 
0-00 
0-10 
9 
0-00 
0-03 
0-00 
0-03 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
10 
0-00 
0-01 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-15 
0-10 
0-20 
11 
0-l6 
0-32 
0-27 
0-88 
0-00 
0-09 
0-30 
0-70 
0-30 
12 
3-14 
1-78 
1-35 
1-06 
0-00 
1-26 
0-82 
1-92 
0-95 
13 
0-34 
0-00 
0-00 
0-08 
4-OOt 
0-00 
1-20 
2-16 
1-30 
14 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
0-02 
1-86 
1-70 
0-00 
0-00 
0-00 
15 
0-00 
0-83 
1-57 
1-43 
2-25 
0-00 
1-25 
2-18 
1-30 
16 
4-20 
4-65 
2-10 
3-76 
4-75 
5-00 
3-50 
6-79 
3-70 
17 
4-61 
2-34 
2-60 
2-22 
2-54 
2-25 
3-30 
7-58 
3-35 
18 
0-65 
0-86 
1-01 
1-09 
1-10 
0-06 
1-35 
3-56 
1-50 
19 
0-16 
2-25 
1-81 
1-34 
0-75 
2-58 
1-65 
3-38 
1-50 
20 
1*77 
5-22 
2-20 
4-55 
4-67 
4-70 
0-90 
1-60 
0-70 
21 
3-34 
0-40 
0-50 
0-43 
0-55 
0-74 
3-95 
11-10 
4-10 
22 
4-46 
4-28 
4-38 
3-93 
5-11 
4-70 
3-50 
7-66 
3-40 
23 
0-21 
0-11 
0-10 
0-13 
0-24 
0-30 
3-80 
5-88 
3-70 
24 
3*62 
4-53 
5-20 
5-22 
6-00 
6-43 
0-43 
0-90 
0-45 
25 
3-93 
10-51 
6-73 
7-10* 
7-501 
ll-75§ 
6-40 
13-72 
5-50 
26 
5-72 
1-26 
1-50 
0-85 
0-85 
1-05 
4-95 
9-00 
4-90 
27 
1-25 
1-27 
1-86 
3-35 
2-55 
2-70 
1-25 
1-90 
1-25 
28 
2*22 
2-54 
3-00 
2-28 
2-80 
3-25 
6-25 
11-50 
6-10 
29 
2-78 
1-90 
2-50 
2-13 
2-20 
2-90 
2-10 
2-85 
2-15 
30 
1-41 
1-55 
2-15 
1-42 
2-55 
2-70 
2-15 
3-40 
2-40 
31 
2-47 
3-68 
4-50 
4-57 
3-75 
4-40 
2-35 
3-15 
2-45 
July 
June 
48-67 
23-37 
51-68 
22-82 
46-55 
23-34 
49-05 
19*40 
56-02 
61-23 
25-56 
OC 
O 
102-1411 
46-60 
53-00 
26-71 
Totals 
72-04 
74-50 
69-89 
68-45 
86-79 
81-04 
148-74 
79-71 
It is seen that in June the fall of rain varied from 19'46 in. at Bycalla to 46'60 in. 
at the flagstaff at Parell, and in July from 46’55 in. on the Esplanade to 102*14 in. 
at the flagstaff at Parell ; or omitting this as a doubtful return, to 61*23 in. at Airy 
Cottage, Mazagon ; and the total of the two months varies from 68*15 in. to 86*79 
(omitting the gauge at the Parell flagstaff) at Airy Cottage. I do not know whether 
the investigations were carried out for a whole monsoon, but in case the discre- 
pancies continued, it would be difficult to determine the normal fall of rain in Bom- 
bay. But the anomaly is not confined to Bombay ; Dr. Murray, in a paper published 
in the Journal of the Physical Society of Bombay, No. 9, p. 172, has the following 
* Gauge overflowed. t No register kept for first thirteen days — 4 inches set down at guess. 
J Gauge overflowed. 
§ The gauge was running over, but this seems pretty nearly all that fell. It poured in torrents from 5 p.m. 
on the 25th till 6 a.m. 26th. 
II The difference here is the same as last month (twice as much of fall being set down here as fell everywhere 
else) ; and so enormous and unaccountable as to lead to the inference of some tremendous blunder. 
2 z 
MDCCCL. 
