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2 SOITTH-WEST MONflOOM.
3 the ckNids oontinue their progresA to Aff^hauniitMiii ; but few malBft
4 their way over the mountains, or reach the valley of Cashmeer. Hie
5 douds which pass on to Afghaunistaun are exhansted as they go :
6 the rains become weaker and weaker, and at last are merely sufficient
7 to water the mountains, without much affecting the plains at their
8 base.
9 The above obscr\'ation.s will explain, or at least connect the follow-
10 ing facts. The south-west monsoon commences on the Malabar
11 coast in May, and is there very violent ; it is later and more mo-
12 derate in Mysore; and tiie ( Oroniandel coast, covered by the moun-
13 tainous countries on its west, is entirely exempt from it. Further
14 north, the monsoon begins early in June, and loses a ^no{\ deal of its
15 violence, except in the places influenced by the neigh ix)urhood ot the
16 mountains or the sea, where the fall of water is verv considerable.
17 About I)t it does not begin till the end of June, and the faU of
18 rain is greatly inferior to what is felt at Calcutta or Bombay. In the
19 north of the Puiijuub, near the hills, it exceeds that of Delly ; but,
20 in the south of the Punjaub, distant both from the sea and the hills,
21 very little rain falls. The countries under the hills of Cashmeer, and
22 those under Hindoo Coosh, (Fukhlee, Boonere, and Swaut) have all
23 didr shaie of the rains ; but ihey diminidi as we go west, and at
24 Smut are leduoed to a month of clouds, with oocasi In
25 the same month (the end of July and beginning of August) the mon*
26 soon appears m some cJouds and showers at Peahawer, and m .die
27 Bwngnah and Khuttok oountries. It is stiU kssifelt in the yalley of
28 the Cauhvd river* where it does not extend bejond Tiughmaun;
29 but in Bigour and Fhmjoora, under the southeni pnjection* in th^
30 pnt of the Caufir conntxy, which is situated, on the top of the same
31 prqjectiont and in Teera, .situated in the angle formed by Tukhti
32 SoUmaun and its eastern branches, the south-west monsoon is heavy,
33 and finrns the prindpal rains of the y&a. There is rain in this sea^
34 son in the country of the Jaujees and Torees, whidi jnrobably is
35 Inonglit fiom the nocth by the eddy in the winds; but I have not in^
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