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BENGAL PEOVINOE, 1865.
The monthly Rainfall registered in inches and cents at one station in each district during the
year 1865 is shewn in the subjoined tabular statement.
Divisions.
Burdwan.
Presidency.
Rajshahye.
Cooch Behar.
Dacca.
Chittagong.
Patna.
Bhagulpore.
Orissa.
Chota Nagpore.
DISTRICTS.
Burdwan
ßankoora
Beerbhoom* (Suri)
...
Midnapore†
Howrah*
24-Pergunuahst (Alipore)
Calcutta (Observatory) ...
Nuddea (Krishnagarh) ...
Jessore*
Moorshedabad (Berham-
pore).
Dinagepore
Maldali
Rajshahye
(Rampore
Bauleah) .
Rungpore*
Bogra
Pubna*
Darjeeling*
,
Julpigoree*
Dacca
Furreedpore*
Backergunire* (Burisal) ...
Mymensingh
Chittagong
Noakholly
Tipperah' (Comillah )
Patna*
Gya*
Shahabad (Arrah)
Mozufferpore*
Tirhoot
Durbhanga*...
Sarun (Chuprah)
Chumparun* (Motihari)...
Monghyr
Bhagulpore
Purneah*
Sonthal* (Nya Dumka) ...
Cuttnck †
Pooree
Balasore
Hazaribagh*
Loharrtugga (Ranchi)
Singbhum* (Chyebasa) ...
Maubhum* (Purulia)
Monthly Totals
Quarterly Totals
Monthly averages
Quarterly averages
RAINFALL RΕGΙSΤΕrΕD IN THE MONTHS OF 1865.
Januwary.
0.41
0.80
0.42
0.39
0.48
0.35
0·36
0.31
0.50
0.50
0.58
0.47
0.27
0.20
0.35
0.59
0.31
0.82
0.30
0.16
0.16
0.15
0.39
0.09
1.10
0.25
0.31
0.50
0.52
0.42
13.43
Februwary.
2.60
1.10
0 92
3.40
3.00
1.77
1.43
1.86
2.80
0 64
2.00
2.00
3.42
2.00
0.35
1.50
1.19
1.27
0·39
0.74
1.46
1.23
1.60
0.72
0.38
2.35
0.71
0.03
0.50
0.51
0.26
0.76
0.34
1.20
0.80
0.65
0.94
2.30
1.80
1.35
0.71
2.50
0.92
0.79
69.79
March.
1.90
2.30
0.81
1.40
5.50
3.02
1.63
1.96
1.80
1.72
2·20
1·70
1.71
1.90
0.99
1.60
1.43
1.60
2.03
1.56
2.04
1.44
0.80
0.20
2.60
0.31
0.55
1.85
0.65
0.51
1.72
1.50
1.45
1.50
0.31
0.97
3.60
0.80
5.75
0.70
1.95
1.58
0.83
72·37
145.59
0.31
1.36 1.64
3.31
April.
4.40
0.81
4.30
5·50
2.42
2.48
4.28
3.10
4.09
2.20
12.00
1.31
5.10
3.24
7.00
6.52
4.38
4.66
14.16
6.69
2.89
29.70
3.52
4.44
9.00
0.41
0.50
2.28
0.50
0.79
2.00
0.45
1.40
3.60
2.45
1.02
0.70
5.70
0.44
0 40
1.18
0.95
173.86
May.
16 30
3.90
2.48
16.60
12.50
8.73
4.77
15.94
22.60
6.90
9.09
7.60
7.50
10.30
9.34
11.70
7.87
6.42
8.59
9.32
10.58
7.03
30.00
11.14
17.42
13.85
0.97
0.73
3.91
1.84
1.18
1.60
2.98
6.30
9 .45
1.57
3.36
7.40
13.00
11.55
1.14
4.20
2.43
1.25
357.33
June.
5.20
15.80
8.40
13.30
12.50
13.56
11.25
8.63
12.00
12.88
3.95
22.40
11.34
5.70
22.58
18.90
12.52
26.03
29.61
14.97
13.69
11.50
27.60
12.51
23.58
34.20
6.66
6.53
2.45
6.60
8.02
1.80
8.35
3.75
6.10
12.17
8.86
8.10
6.60
4.25
8.12
5.10
7.48
8.79
523.83
1,055.02
3.95
8.12
11.91
23.98
July.
14.00
15.85
13.03
25.40
7.50
12.14
12.00
12.19
7.00
10.44
14.10
24.90
18.90
17.80
17.86
21.80
11.86
28.19
25.86
21.62
11.90
15.24
27.20
40.39
22.01
28.55
10.97
12.49
19.85
11.06
16.11
16 33
11.75
15.05
17.15
15.64
14.39
12.23
4.30
5.90
14.32
11.40
11.99
9.37
708.53
August.
4.00
6.80
12.34
9.60
9.50
12.24
11.41
5.99
5.50
11.09
9.01
10.40
6.40
9.60
12.90
7.30
11.02
25.97
24.95
6.32
11.42
13.14
10.80
7.87
16.17
6.20
7.46
10.52
5.70
9.39
9.00
6.27
10.39
5.85
16 00
13.35
12.27
7.73
5.60
8.25
11.13
8.80
11.43
10.85
450.43
September.
6·60
10.00
9.33
17.40
8.00
10.70
8.89
10.25
11.40
9.12
8.75
6.90
3.78
7.10
12.23
8.20
12.03
17.73
27.31
4.58
9.62
11.01
6.30
6.35
8.55
8.00
7.26
6.83
2.10
8.58
12.14
3.55
11.93
1.80
9.20
15.94
10.75
7.41
5.20
9.30
8.57
4.30
10 28
7.08
402.38
1. 561.34
16.10
10.24
9.14
85.48
October.
0.50
4.41
5.43
6.87
6.03
0.50
5.30
1.60
4.91
8.45
7.09
2.77
4.52
5.27
3.82
3.40
1.15
2.54
2.89
8.39
1.79
8.16
4.41
3.27
0.30
3.69
4.13
4.33
110.92
November.
0.13
0.40
0.02
0.70
0.28
0.49
0.20
0.02
0.46
0.29
1.60
0.07
0.04
0.03
0.15
0.01
...
0.21
0.19
0.09
5.38
December.
0.10
0.14
0.13
0.12
0.06
0.20
3.30
0.13
0.02
0.10
0.02
0.01
0.23
0.06
0.07
0.50
0.10
0.35
1.00
0.90
0.07
0.04
0.80
0.16
0.18
8.85
125.15
2.52 0.12
0.20
2.84
Total.
62.60
60.65
53.21
92.20
64.00
65.96
61.76
61.58
66.20
64.02
51.30
88.10
57.66
60.00
85.56
79.60
69.20
121.34
131.03
76.04
72.97
69.74
134.00
88.39
96.15
106.25
38.01
42.59
89.14
43.37
60.20
34.34
66.80
36.80
64.85
66.95
55.97
51.40
86.30
62.60
62.40
38.65
62.29
44.93
2,887.10
* 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.
+ Midnapore, from " Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Famine in Bengal and Orissa in 1866."
‡ Alipore—average of five years—1871 to 1875.