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2 WINTER RAINa 181
3 Jbnliitiiiii OKNiglli to enabk me to oaig^^
4 in Bmiiioo hmI the nd^boiiriiig'coimtries is to be lacribed to tibit
5 cause, or to the rcguhr monsoon from the aonth-wcat.
6 The regular monsoon is felt as fiur west as the utmost boundaiy of
7 Mekraun ; it is not easy to fix its limits on the north-west with pre-
8 dsUMit but I have no accounts of it beyond a line drawn through the
9 nogrthem part of the table land of Kelaut and the northern parts of
10 Shoiaubuk, of Pisheen, and of 2bobe, to the source of the Kooiv
11 rum ; it £Jls, however, in very different quantities in the various
12 countries south-east of that line. Tlie clouds pass with little obstruc-
13 tion over Lower Sind, but rain more plentifully in Upper Sind and
14 Domaun, where these rains, though not heavy, are the principal ones
15 in the year. On tlie sea-coast of Luss and Mekraun, on the other
16 hand, they are arrested by tlie moantains, and the monsoon resembles
17 that of [ndia. In Seweestauu the monsoon is probably the same as
18 , in Upper Sind and Duiviann : in Boree it is only about a mouth of
19 cloudy and showery weather : it is probably less in Zhobe : and in
20 the other countries within the line it only appewrs in showers, more
21 precarious as we advance towards the north. *
22 The second rain to be noticed, is that which falls in Winter, and
23 which assumes the form of rain or snow, according to the tempera-
24 ture of the place ; it extends over all the countries west of the In-
25 dus, as far as the Hdlespont, and is of much greater importance to
26 hiisbendry than the aonUfe-wesk monaoon, except hi the dSstriott
27 alieady specified ; it ia mdeed the most considefable nuny seaaob in
28 all die eombiea I hare to mentionf excepting those Included in In-
29 die; it even i^ppeazs in India, but only lasts ibr two or ihree dajs
30 ebont Oinstnlas,- and tfaon^ of some mip(aCaDce to' the cdthratibn,
31 oannot always be rdied on*
32 • I hope all the above infomintion will be found correct; but I am not sanguine
33 about the theory, which I ahould have sufipreMfid, if I had not thoa^ it uaefUl in
34 connecting the facts.
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