OBSERVATIONS TAKEN IN INDIA. 
361 
Extract from a journal kept at Kotri near Hyderabad on the Indus, by Mr. Strath, 
engineer ; for the months entered the blanks indicate the months of no observation. 
1845. 
1846. 
1847. 
1848. 
1849. 
January 
February ... 
March 
April 
May 
June 
July 
August 
September ... 
October 
November ... 
December ... 
None. 
None. 
None. 
* 
None. 
1’75 in. 
6*33 in. 
0-27 in. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
t 
None. 
t 
None. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
§ 
None. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
0*36 in. 
11 
8*35 in. 
0*35 in. 
I am enabled, however, since the preceding notices were written, by the arrival in 
England of the medical returns from the Bombay army for 1847, to give an official 
and authentic record of the rain-fall and temperature at Kurrachee for 1847. It will 
be seen that for eleven months not a single shower fell, and that in one month only 
did rain fall, the record being in accord so far with the letter dated 6th of July 1848, 
differing, however, inasmuch as the rain in the official report is represented to have 
fallen in June and the latter in July. 
1847. 
Thermometer. 
Max. 
Min. 
Mean. 
O 
83 
O 
53 
67 
74 
59 
67 
84 
70 
77 
84 
75 
79 
90 
77 
83 
94 
80 
87 
90 
78 
84 
95 
82 
88 
90 
80 
86 
93 
72 
80 
91 
59 
72 
83 
44 
63 
88*42 
69*08 
77*75 
Rain. 
Rain. 
January ... 
February 
March ... 
April 
May 
June 
July 
August .., 
September 
October ... 
November 
December 
Mean 
On 24th, 25lh and 31st. 
Heavy showers, 23rd and 24th. 
On 24th and 25th. 
3-0 
Slight showers. 
In a review of the above rain-records we find some singular features. Along the 
western coast of India, from Cape Comorin to the mouth of the Indus, there is a 
paucity of rain at the former place, and an almost total absence of it at the latter. 
* On the 4th of this month a few drops of rain fell at sunset, 
t Rain during the night and light showers during the day. 
J At sunset drops of rain. 
§ At p.M. of the 7th heavy showers of rain with wind, thunder and lightning. 
II On the 30th light showers. 
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