GENERAL NOTES ON THE CLIMATE. 
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cloudy and rainy days, than in almost any part of the United States. The quantity of water 
falling is not excessive, however, and there is very little snow. The winter precipitation is 
greatest, and embraces almost all, if the connected months, which maybe so called, are included, 
and the fall at sea-level is almost always rain. This winter rainy season is identical in character 
along the whole Pacific coast of the United States, being only shorter, by commencing later and 
closing earlier in regular decrease southward from Puget sound. The attendant winds and 
phenomena are also identical—the constant southeast wind and the low range of the barometer. 
The detailed reports of the several reconnaissance parties, and that accompanying the prin¬ 
cipal report of Governor Stevens, embrace all the points of interest presented by the observations 
which have not been alluded to here. It is still scarcely possible to review the extensive field 
covered by the survey, or its collateral interests, in a satisfactory manner. 
