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IN NATURE, vol. xiii., p. 70, under the head of “The Rainfall,” you allude to the extraordinary rainfall for 1875 in Great Britain, and call it a plague of rain; you further call attention to the astonishing fall of 1287 inches for each of the three hours between 4 and 7 A.M. on the 1st of September last, at Sikawei, in China; and to the total quantity that fell there during the twenty-four hours that elapsed between 4 P.M. on August 31 and the same hour on the day following, viz. 8.59 inches.
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PUCKLE, J. The Rainfall. Nature 13, 86–87 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/013086c0
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