+----------------------------------------------------+ | | Anjarakandy. | Calcutta. | | Months. |--------------------|-------------------| | | Rain. | Temp. | Rain. | Temp. | |-----------|----------|---------|---------|---------| | | M. M. | | M. M.| | | January, | 2,26 | 26 deg.,5 | 0,0 | 18 deg.,4 | | February, | 2,26 | 27 deg.,7 | 67,68 | 21 deg.,5 | | March, | 6,77 | 28 deg.,4 | 24,82 | 25 deg.,6 | | April, | 29,33 | 29 deg.,8 | 130,84 | 28 deg.,5 | | May, | 175,96 | 28 deg.,6 | 16,24 | 29 deg.,7 | | June, | 794,05 | 26 deg.,6 | 575,24 | 29 deg.,3 | | July, | 807,59 | 25 deg.,8 | 338,38 | 28, deg.1 | | August, | 572,98 | 26 deg.,0 | 311,31 | 28 deg.,3 | | September,| 311,31 | 26 deg.,4 | 254,91 | 28 deg.,0 | | October, | 157,91 | 26 deg.,8 | 42,86 | 27 deg.,2 | | November, | 65,42 | 26 deg.,9 | 20,30 | 23 deg.,0 | | December, | 29,33 | 26 deg.,5 | 0,0 | 19 deg.,2 | |-----------|----------|---------|---------|---------| | Year, | 2955,14 | 27 deg.,2 | 1928,74 | 26 deg.,4 | +----------------------------------------------------+ Anjarakandy is on the Malabar coast, between 12 deg. and 13 deg. north latitude. Calcutta in an angle of the Bay of Bengal, at 22 deg. 30' north latitude. The former is in and near the focus of the monsoons, and has a temperature in July (when 18 inches of rain fall), about as low as in December. In the foregoing table from Kaemptz, the rain is in millimetres, about twenty-five of which make an inch, and the temperature is centigrade, which may be raised to Fahrenheit by adding four fifths of the quantity and also 32 deg.--thus, if the height of the centigrade thermometer be 25 deg., add to this four fifths of 25 deg., which is 20 deg., and also 32 deg., the result is 77 deg.. Twenty-five centigrade is therefore equal to seventy-seven Fahrenheit. Lieutenant Maury is not, and should not be a theorist. He occupies the position, in some sort, of a national _investigator_, and, of course, of national _instructor_. Opinions which emanate from him, or which are endorsed by him, should be accurate. Sooner or later that which he has adopted in relation to the monsoons, and some others, must be abandoned. In addition to what has already been said, I wish to call his, and the reader's attention, to several other facts and considerations in relation to the monsoons, and particularly those of India.