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BENGAL PROVINCE, 1867.
The monthly Rainfall registered in inches and cents at one station in each District during the
year 1867 is shown in the subjoined tabular statement.
Divisions.
Burdwan.
Press-
dency
Rajshahye
Cooch
Behar.
Daecs.
Chitts
gong.
Paths.
Bhagul
pore.
Orrissa.
Chota
Nagpore
DlSTRICTS
Burdwan
Bankura
Beerbhnm (Suri)
Midnapore*
Hooghli*
Howrah*
24-Pergunnahs* (Alipore)t
Calcutta (Observatory) ...
Nuddea (Krishnagarh) ...
Jessore*
Murshidabad
(Berham-
pore).
Dinagepore
Maldah
Rajshahye (Rampur Bau-
lia).
Rungpore*
Pubna
...
Darjiling*
Julpaiguri* ...
...
Dacca
"Furridpore*
Backergunge (Burrisal)*
Mymensing ...
Chittagong ...
...
...
Tipperah
...
,
Patna*
Gya
Shahabad (Arrah)
Tirhut
Mozufferpore ...
Tirhut Durbhanga* ...
Sarun (Chaprah)
Chumparun (Motihari) ...
Monghyr
Bhagulpore ...
...
Purneah*
Sonthal* (Nya Dumka) ...
Cuttack
...
...
...
Balasore
Hazaribagh ...
Lohardugga (Ranchi)
Singbhum* (Chaibassa) ..
Maubhum (Purulia)
..
Monthly Totals
Quarterly Totals
Monthly averages
.
Quarterly averages
RAINFALL REGISTEBED IN THE MONTHS OF 1867.
January
0·30
1 25
0·80
0·80
0·60
0·42
0·39
0·55
0·35
...
0·70
6·00
0·10
0·36
0·44
0·50
0·50
0·83
0·58
0·47
0·90
1·77
1·75
0·59
1·00
0·65
3·10
0·30
0·70
...
1·10
1·00
0·39
0·09
1·40
0·80
0·50
0·52
0·09
32·6
0·74
February
0·30
0·80
0·30
0·54
0·50
1·77
1·43
0·82
0·40
0·64
0·33
0·50
0·20
0·35
1·96
1·27
0·89
0·27
1·46
1·23
0·60
1·42
0·10
0·71
2·50
2·00
1·10
0·26
2 20
1·70
0·85
1·80
0·65
0·94
1·50
...
0·40
0·60
0·92
35·21
126·35
0·80
March
1·10
1·12
0·40
1·79
4·90
3·02
1·63
1·57
0·50
1·72
0·26
0·82
0v40
0·99
0·20
5·02
1·60
2·03
1·66
2·04.
1·44
3·40
2·72
4·45
0·31
0·20
0·51
...
1·65
1·20
0·31
0·97
0·80
3·.35
0·50
1·40
1·58
1·00
58·55
1·33
2·87
April
1·80
0·85
1·20
1·60
0·80
2·42
2·48
0·27
1·50
4·09
0·29
...
0·15
1·90
3·24
3·30
9·88
4·38
4·66
6·69
2·89
1·80
·
9·80
0·41
1·50
0·27
1·20
0·79
0·60
1·10
0·70
1·80
2·45
1·02
2·35
4·20
5·00
1·70
1·80
1·18
0·50
101·54
2·31
May
2·50
1·05
4·90
6·42
3·60
373
4·77
2·46
3·70
6·90
2·98
9·20
1·51
8·50
9 34
8·70
7·65
6·42
8·59
4·30
10·58
7·03
2·30
7·60
12·80
10·90
0·97
5·21
3·35
0·80
1 18
3·30
1·40
2·70
2·40
1·57
3·36
2·15
4·60
3·50
2·10
0·65
2·48
1·66
195·76
780·82
4·45
June
8·80
5·70
7·60
11·34
6·80
13·66
11·25
6 12
7·30
12·83
6·74
11·60
4·22
6·90
22·58
9·50
14·38
26·53
29·61
4·51
13·69
11·50
22·30
5·70
12·65
13·70
6·66
12·12
10·85
9·60
8 02
13·79
15·20
13·07
12·04
12·17
8·86
7·75
8·20
7·70
9·60
7·70
7·48
6·25
483·52
10·99
17·75
July
13·90
15·45
14·80
10·94
15·40
12·14
12·50
15·44
9·75
10·44
10·88
23·70
11·25
10·70
17·86
36·40
18·02
28·19
25·86
15·66
11·90
16·24
32·00
32·56
2·90
25·50
10·97
18·44
16·39
18·90
16·11
22·55
14·20
6·62
10·55
15·64
14·39
10·83
13·40
6·70
16·90
8·30
11·99
682·26
15·50
August
12·50
12·25
12·00
10·95
6·60
12·24
11·41
18·50
8·80
11·09
8·03
10·60
10·90
7·60
12·90
18·30
12·74
25·97
24·95
9·52
11·42
13·14
16·77
26·91
33·45
12·10
7·46
13·01
7·30
10·00
9·00
9·15
6·10
8·18
5·00
13·35
12·27
9·51
14·70
13·15
11·60
11·75
11·43
9·77
554·37
1,758·34
12·60
September.
6·40
6·05
10·10
8·91
7·70
1070
8·89
1370
14·35
9·12
10·84
11·30
18·25
14·10
12·23
10·30
15·30
1773
27·31
9·62
11·01
14·25
83·27
24·45
12·60
7·26
9·68
8·06
14·00
12·14
17·40
7·80
6·25
10·44
15·94
10v75
10·11
10·60
15·22
4·60
4·70
10·28
9·00
621·71
11·86
39·96
October.
4·80
3·60
2·50
6·98
5·20
5·43
6·87
8·45
8·10
6·03
2·88
0·90
1·35
2·70
5·30
5·00
6·77
8·45
7·09
3·20
4 52
5·27
7·70
9·23
1·30
3·95
2·54
1·12
2·88
2·30
1·79
6·55
170
3·40
2·08
4·41
3·27
5·40
14·30
9·00
3·35
3·86
4·13
8·80
214·44
4·87
November.
2·50
0·90
1·20
0·60
2·90
0·40
!
0·02
4·85
3·10
0·70
2·59
1·90
1·85
3·40
0·28
12·20
8·95
0·20
0·02
6·60
0·46
0·29
8·00
15·44
7·25
6·88
0·07
...
...
...
0·34
0·01
0·35
2·60
0·96
0·19
0·30
92·20
December.
...
...
...
0·13
0·12
0·06
4··
0·13
...
0·10
0·02
0·01
0·23
...
0·50
0·06
...
...
0·10
...
...
0·07
0·04
0·16
1·73
308·37
2·10
0·04
7·01
Total.
64·90
48·52
55·80
69·67
54·50
65·96
61·
72·73
57·50
64·02
44·81
70·40
56·30
61·60
85·56
103·90
96·11
121·34
131·03
60·21
72·97
69 74
110·02
136·62
97·72
102·23
38·01
64·58
51·95
61·00
60·20
76·24
49·20
43·52
48·65
66·95
55 97
60·76
70·00
67·62
62·51
41·25
62·29
37·37
2,973·88
67·59
• Average : from " Report on the Food-grain Supply and Statistical Review of the Relief Operations in the Distressed Districts
of Behar and Bengal during the Famine of 1873-74 " by A. P. MacDonnell, of the Bengal Civil Service.
† Alipore : average of five years, 1871 to 1876.