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SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
CYPRUS AS I SAW IT IN 1879
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T EMPERATURE AND R AINFALL. I XVIII.] 433 Bccompanicd by those kindly furnished mc by Colonel Hrhite, ist Royal Scots, when chief commissioner of tefkosia, will afford a dependable basis for any |nedical opinion. TLIERMOMETIR. 1 INCHES MONTHS. 6. •i RAINFALL. CO fO i έ rt X m s rt &quot;κ Mβ c fl I <, ^February, in the plain of Mes-1 ο·8ο 6° I saria | 4 57° 68e 37° ìiarch, in the Carpas district ) I-7I 49 6o 68 ι and ditto j 45 Kpril, in the Kyrenia district, 1 nil. 57 68 I the maximum at Morphu . / 83 47 AT 7 A.M. ,May, in Limasol to nth inst. ditto. 64 78 84 76 Ido . Trooditissa, 4,340 ft. to 1 62 0-30 56A 73 42 L 31st from 12th . . . . J &quot;une, Trooditissa ... . 66 71 A. 78 54 July, do. .... 7.1* 78 84 65 The fall of 1*13 inch of rain in June took place in j©ne hour and a half, and none of the rain which fell at the mountain range extended to the low country. It will be seen that from ist February to the end of May only 2-51 inches fell throughout the central and eastern divisions, and very little that was measured in the Carpas district reached the Messaria. There was a fall of about 17 0 inch in January at Larnaca which I had no opportunity of measuring, but inclusive of this quantity the total rainfall from ist January to the end of summer would not have exceeded 4-21 ches in the lower country. • inch

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