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IN looking over data of the rainfall at Bombay and comparing them with the ebb and flow of the Nile for the corresponding years from 1849 to 1880 inclusive, I was so struck with the similarity, almost identity, of magnitudes, that I have been led to copy them out, and perhaps you may consider them worthy of publication in your most valuable journal. Within a trifling fraction the whole of the annual rainfall at Bombay happens in the months of June, July, August, and September. Very rarely a little falls in May, perhaps a little more frequently, some in October, but these small quantities but slightly augment the sum total. They are included in the four months' totals in the following table:—
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BRIERLEY, M. Bombay Rainfall and Nile Floods. Nature 24, 532 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024532c0
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