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LIEUT.-COLONEL SYKES’S DISCUSSION OF METEOROLOGICAL 
the Sanatariura, about 100 feet higher, with the intervening eminence of Mount Char- 
lotte rising to a further height of 100 feet, the quantity of rain did not exceed 185 
inches during the same period ; hence a difference of 60 inches or 24 per cent, at 
two houses situated at the same station. The position of the ground explains the 
difference, but probably few people, on examining the localities, would have antici- 
pated its amount. It shows the supreme importance of instituting multiplied obser- 
vations, before deciding on the site of a sanitary hill station.” 
To add to the means of comparison, some other rain-fall localities from the sea- 
coast, and Konkun, or country between the Ghats and the sea, — from the Ghats and 
from the plateau of the Deccan, are annexed, being the mean fall for the years 
1844-47. 
Sea-coast of Konkun. 
Konkun, 
somewhat inland. 
Western Gh5,ts. 
Western 
Ghats, 
East 
branch. 
Deccan. 
Bombay, 
sea-level. 
Rutna- 
gherry, 
150 feet. 
Tanna, 
sea- 
level. 
Dapoolee, 
900 feet. 
Kundalla, 
1740 feet, 
1833 and 
1835. 
Mahabu- 
leshwur, 
4500 feet. 
Paunch- 
gunnee, 
4000 feet, 
1835, 1842 
and 1843. 
Satta- 
rah, 
2320 
feet. 
Kola- 
poor, 
1847. 
Poona, 
1842 
feet. 
Nassick. 
Bel- 
gaum, 
2000 
feet. 
Dhar- 
war. 
Ahmed- 
nugger, 
1900 
feet. 
Shola- 
poor, 
1847. 
68-73 
114-55 
106-16 
134-96 
141-59 
254-84 
50-69 
39-20 
20-74 
19-02 
26-72 
40-90 
38-81 
21-83 
32-16 
Tanna and Dapoolee are situated between the sea-coast and the foot of the Ghats. 
Kundalla is on the crest of the Ghats on the high road from Bombay to Poona. The 
places in the Deccan lie eastward of the Ghats. Arranging the above places accord- 
ing to their supply of rain, it appears the greatest fall is on the crest of the Ghats, 
increasing from 141*59 inches at Kundalla at 1740 feet to a mean fall of 254*84 
inches at Mahabuleshwur, at 4500 feet. From the crest of the Ghats the supply of 
rain decreases towards the sea-coast westward, but decreases in an infinitely greater 
ratio eastward on the plateau of the Deccan. Along the coast the supply of rain 
diminishes with the increase in latitude. 
In further illustration of the unequal fall of rain in the Bombay Presidency, the 
returns for May, June and July 1849 are annexed. They are the latest I have re- 
ceived except from Bombay. 
Bombay. 
Poona. 
Surat. 
Nassick. 
Asseerghur. 
Ahmedabad. 
Phoonda 
Gbat. 
Mahabu- 
leshwur. 
Paunch- 
gunnee. 
Calcutta. 
May 
June 
July 
0-00 
22-82 
51-68 
0-405 
9-055 
6-425 
0-00 
11-16 
19-00 
0-00 
8-63 
7-03 
0-23 
5-45 
16-31 
2-03 
4-10 
7-62 
0-00 
50-00 
83-00 
0-00 
59-90 
89*24 
6-00 
13-0 
8-25 
Total 
74-50 
15-885 
30-16 
15-66 
21-99 
13-75 
133-00 
149-14 
11-95 
27-25 
