The Old North-west, so called because up to “the forties” it formed our actual frontier, has in many ways the best climate to be found in the plains of India, the best part of the area being undoubtedly the Rohilkhand division. During the hot weather, it is true, the heat rivals that of the Punjab, and one may at times have a long succession of hot nights, but the worst is over by the middle of June, as with the “bursting of the monsoon” comes a great and welcome relief, which in good years is kept up through the rest of the warm weather. When, however, a “break in the rains” of any duration occurs, the climate for the time becomes, if anything, more trying than the contemporaneous conditions in the Punjab. The cold weather, however, goes on for four months, and affords one of the finest climates in the world for those who are not enthusiasts for the miseries of ice and snow. TABLE SHOWING THE MONTHLY RAINFALL AND MEAN TEMPERATURE OF THIRTY-ONE INDIAN STATIONS. ===+=============+=+===========+===========+===========+===========+ No.| Station | | January | February | March | April | | | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | |Rain-| Mean|Rain-| Mean|Rain-| Mean|Rain-| Mean| | | |fall | Tem-|fall | Tem-|fall | Tem-|fall | Tem-| | | | | per-| | per-| | per-| | per-| | | | | a- | | a- | | a- | | a- | | | | | ture| | ture| | ture| | ture| ---+-------------+ +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ 1|Simla | | 2·35|41·5°| 2·68|41·5°| 2·24|50·7°| 1·90|59·7°| ---+-------------+ +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ 2|Peshawar (N.)| | 1·77|51·7 | 0·98|53·6 | 1·70|64·2 | 1·84|73·7 | |Lahore (Mid.)|S| 1·06|54·4 | 1·10|57·1 | 0·73|69·2 | 0·46|80·7 | |Multan (S.) |u| 0·48|56·3 | 0·38|59·5 | 0·38|72·1 | 0·07|82·7 | ---+-------------+b+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ 3|Meerut |-| 1·27|57·4 | 0·79|61·0 | 0·77|72·4 | 0·24|83·2 | |Agra |T| 0·53|61·0 | 0·21|65·0 | 0·31|77·2 | 0·14|88·2 | |Allahabad |r| 0·85|60·8 | 0·28|65·3 | 0·32|77·8 | 0·11|88·1 | |Benares |o| 0·79|61·2 | 0·37|65·9 | 0·28|77·8 | 0·08|87·9 | |Jhansi |p| 0·59|63·3 | 0·33|67·3 | 0·35|79·3 | 0·13|89·9 | ---+-------------+i+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ 4|Patna |c| 0·65|61·3 | 0·53|65·3 | 0·38|77·4 | 0·26|87·0 | |Hazaribagh |a| 0·56|61·7 | 0·82|65·8 | 0·75|76·3 | 0·41|85·2 | ---+-------------+l+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ 5|Calcutta | | 0·60|66·2 | 1·38|70·7 | 1·57|80·0 | 1·74|85·5 | |Dhubri |I| 0·40|62·5 | 0·53|66·0 | 1·93|75·6 | 4·83|79·4 | |Sibsagar |n| 1·47|59·9 | 1·96|62·9 | 5·07|69·7 | 9·37|74·6 | ---+-------------+d+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+