At Mahabaleshwar it amounts to 248 inches annually. In the Southern Konkan, especially in the Sawantvvari district, the rains are as heavy as in Canara. At Bombay tbe rains last from June till the end of September, and the fall is only eighty inches, which is considerably less than at any point further south on the coast. At Tannah, however;the average fall is more than 100 inches. In the. Himalaya, the truly temperate vegetation supersedes the sub-tropical 'above 4000 to 6000 feet, and the elevation at which this change takes place corresponds roughly with that at which the winter is tnarked by an annual fall of snow. This phenomenon varies extremely with the latitude, humidity, and many local circumstances. In Ceylon and the Western Peninsula, whose moun tains attain 9000 feet, and where considerable tracts are elevated above 6000 to 8000 feet, snow bas never been known to fall. On the Kbasaya mountains, which attain 7000 feet, aud where a great extent of surface is above 5000, snow seems to be unknown.
Sikkim occupies an intermediate position be tween Nepal a»d Bhutan, and unites the floras of Nepal, Bhutan, East Tibet, and the Kliassya mountains, being hence, in a geographico-botanical point of view, one of the most important provinces in India, if not in all Asia. In Sikkim snow
annually falls at about 6000 feet elevation, in Nepal at 5000 feet, in Eamon and Garhwal at 4000, and in the extreme IV. Himalaya, lower still.
East Tibet is an enormously elevated mountain mass, and many of the large rivers of Asia flow from it in several directions.
The Eastern Archipelago, from consisting of large islands separated by belts of sea, possesses a humid and equable climate ; but the great con tinent of Australia, being a vast expanse of low land, becomes enormously heated when the sun is in the southern hemisphere, rind presents extremes of climate. The common characters of Sind are great summer heat but little tempered by rain, great winter cold, a dry soil. Its flora resembles those of Egypt, Arabia and the countries border ing on the Persian Gu'IL—Dr. Stocks ; Joan'. of the hul. Archipelago, ii., February 1818.