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Dr. Murray adds, ‘‘The prodigious influence of the Ghats in modifying the 
amount of the S.W. monsoon rain, is perhaps nowhere more strikingly shown than 
in the N.W. parts of the Sattarah territory. If we draw a line nearly straight from 
west to east, from Mahabuleshwur, on the summit of the Ghats, to Phultun, a 
distance of little more than forty miles, we shall find at the commencement of the 
line a rain-fall of 240 inches, at an altitude of 4500 feet; 180 inches at Sindola, a 
mile distant, and elevated 4600 feet ; 50 inches at Paunchgunnee, at a further distance 
of eleven miles and an elevation of 4000 feet ; 25 inches at Wye, four miles further 
east and 2300 feet in height above the sea, while at the extremity of the line at Phultun, 
thirty miles from Sattarah, and about the same level as Wye, the quantity is reduced 
to 7 or 8 inches.” But Dr. Murray must have meant during the S.W. monsoon, as 
he had previously represented the fall of rain at Phultun at24‘18 in. in 1848, in 
1847 at 24’04 in., and in 1846 at 18’09 in. Some inches of those amounts however 
are attributable to the Madras monsoon, which commences in October, when the 
Malabar coast monsoon terminates, and Phultun, from its easterly position, gets an 
uncertain sprinkling from the Madras side. 
Dr. Murray, with a view to show not only the discrepancies in the total annual 
fall of rain at places within comparatively limited distances situated on the plateau 
of the Deccan, but the remarkable contrasts in the monthly fall at two proximate 
places, has given the following Table of the fall of rain at Sattarah and Phultun for 
1846 and 1847, Phultun being thirty miles east of Sattarah : — 
Sattarah. 
Phultun. 
1846 . 
1847 . 
1846 . 
1847 . 
January 
0-18 
February 
0-18 
0-02 
March 
0-18 
0-52 
April 
10-88 
1-44 
4-19 
May 
3-49 
0-39 
1-06 
2-88 
June 
10-49 
3-77 
3-80 
1-53 
July 
16-04 
6-28 
1-95 
0-84 
August 
2-13 
2-68 
0-50 
September 
0-77 
3-55 
1-05 
2-00 
October 
2-98 
5-25 
2-50 
3-06 
November 
0-98 
8-00 
5-04 
4-60 
December 
2-46 
0-05 
1-53 
0-89 
Year 
39-52 
40-98 
18-09 
24-04 
Dr. Murray, in a paper published in the autumn Number of the Journal of the 
Physical Society of Bombay for 1849, adds to the proofs of the extraordinary discre- 
pancies in the fall of rain in proximate localities. He states (page 18), “At the Sana- 
tarium at Mahabuleshwur, at 4500 feet, the rain-fall during 1848 was 245 inches, 
being within 3 inches of the average fall during the preceding twenty years. At 
Sindola, the residence of Mr. Frere (the British minister), situated a mile east from 
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