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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 98 0 Browse Search
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t is under 100 inches; at Gowahatty, north of the Khasia, in Assam, it is about 80; and even on the hills twenty miles inland from Churra itself, the fall is reduced to 200. During the rainy season, from April to November, as much as 10 or 12 inches of rain falls in a day in Burmah and Siam. The enormous rainfall of Khasia would, however, seem to be equaled in Cayenne, where Admiral Roussin reports 12 feet 6 96 inches having fallen between the 1st and 24th of February, 1820. At Cumana, in Venezuela, on the same coast, the annual amount is but 8 inches. Latitude exerts a great effect on rainfall, the amount of vapor suspended in the atmosphere decreasing rapidly as we approach the poles, though, owing to its being discharged more equally throughout the year, the number of rainy days is generally greater than in lower latitudes. There are six maximum points of rainfall in Europe, estimated in rainy days, not quantity, — Norway, Scotland, S. W. Ireland and England, Portugal,