Water supply of South Africa and facilities for the storage of it / compiled by John Croumbie Brown.

  • John Croumbie Brown
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Water supply of South Africa and facilities for the storage of it / compiled by John Croumbie Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 0-530 February, .... 0-640 0-002 4-050 March, 0-750 2-640 0-300 0-500 0-300 0-550 2-980 0-750 2-000 1-400 May, 0-950 5-760 2-450 4-100 0-850 10-340 3-390 4-950 0-600 9-150 12-590 15-410 8-982 7-200 15-750 He adds a note to the effect, that from the 1st to the 4th of July in that year (1866) 1-350 inches of rain fell. Some two years before, Mr J. J. Steytler sent to one of the local newspapers, at the request of the editor, the following comparative statement of the rainfall as registered at his residence, Rocklands Villa, Sea Point, up to the [date of his communication :— 1862 1863 1864 January, 0-325 0-250 0-335 February, 0-255 0-545 0-065 March, 0-305 1*933 0-220 April, 0-443 2-607 0-613 May, 0-790 5-066 2-030 June, 9-730 3-154 4-456 July, 5-280 2-799 2-430 August, 3-870 2-601 1-975 September, 1-785 1-443 1-660 October, 3-991 2-010 November, 0*744 0-805 December, 0-033 0-232 27-551 23-445 13-784 And in 1870 Mr Blore gave the following report of the rainfall at several stations for the first half of the year 1870, with the average for each station :— Royal Observatory, 1870 Average. 13-100 Bishop's Court, 19-769 Wynberg Hill, 16-270 Malmesbury, 8-947 Worcester, 5-314
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