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2 JBOITTH-WEST UONSOOK.
3 (er lo start at once into all the freshness and brilliancy of Spring:
4 From this time the rain falls nt intervals for about a month, when it
5 comes on ntirt'\i\ w itii ;:reat violence, and in July the rains are at their
6 height: ilurm^^ thi Lhird month, they rather diminisii, but are still
7 heavy : and ni 8eptenil)er thev ^aduallv abate, and are otten entirely
8 suspended, till near ttie eiul oi tlie month j when they depart amidst
9 thunders and tempests as they came.
10 Such is the monsooa in the greater part of India. It is not, lujw-
11 e\'er, without some diversity, the principal feature ot which is t he de-
12 lay in its commeucemeut, and the diminution in the quantity of ralu,
13 as it recedes fi*om the sea. In the ooimtries whiclk are the Aibject of
14 the present inquiry, the moDMxm is felt with mudi kisviolenoefliea
15 in Luliaf end it cathaurted at no gneat distance fiom the aea, ao that
16 notraoe.ofit can be perceived at Candahar« A Nmarinble exception
17 to this lule^ is* howerer» to be obaerved in the nocth«east of
18 A%hanntrtann, which although much farther fibm the sea than Can^
19 didar, ia-aobject to the monaoon* and what is eqiiaUj jeitiaofldinaiji
20 leodves it from the east.
21 These anomaliei may perhaps be accounted &r by the iblkipi^g
22 conaideratlona. It is to be obae«ved« that. the douda are formed by
23 ths^rapoura of the Indian ocean, and are driven over the. land by a
24 wind from the south-west Most part of the tract in which the
25 fcmyliMm of Caubul lics, is to leeward of Africa and Arabia, and re*
26 eeives only the vapours of the narrow sea between its southern ahdres
27 and the latter country, which are but of small extent, and arie ex*
28 hausted in the immediate neighbourhood of the coast India Ijring
29 further east, and beyond the shelter of Africa, the monsoon spreads
30 over it witlmut anv obstruction. It is nnfurollv most 'severe near the
31 sea firom which it draws its supplies, and is exhausted after it has past
32 * Hie eniMt of loath-west wind nqdn « tepante dkeamkm, vneomiectad
33 with nn- oh] ret, irliirh is tn rxj lain the '^xmmvr rains of the Kingdom of Caubul. It
34 i« milBcicnt tor my purpose that tb« prenraienoe of this wind to the extent aUcged, k
35 wifnraaUy acknowledged.
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