'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From December 1854 to March 1856. (New Issue.) Edited by the Secretary. Volume XII.' [‎7] (118/258)

ON HAILSTORMS IN INDIA.
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“itr^ exited. The following examples of this will be founded in the printed
Quill; list:—
Lohargong.
Bhopalpore
60 miles apart, 9th February 1825.
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storm ii
laihiom
Probably also at Dacca, where hail showers occurred almost daily duriu"
the first week of May.
Ootaeamund.
Nursiogpore
50 miles apart, 20th March 1852.
500 miles apart, 17th April 1854,
On the 16th, there was a serere hailstorm at S ittara, 700 miles south
of Hydrabad ; but I have only coupled together those occurring on the
same day.
It would occupy too much, both of our space and readers’time, to
group up all the hailstorms into Glacial Periods.
It must not always be assumed that places are always prone to hail in
proportion to the number of hailstorms assigned to them—the apparent
excess or deficiency of these is not unfrequently to be ascribed to the care
or negligence with which they have been recorded. The great seeming
predominance of them at Jubbulpore, I attribute mainly to the residence
for twenty years at that station of Dr. Spilsbury, an observer in all depart
ments of natural history so faithful, patient, and minute, that the stations
at which he has been quartered seem to abound more than others with
matters of interest—that is, it is throughhis instrumentility we know much
more about them than we were otherwise likely to have known. And so
it is with many of our distinguished men who seem to c ‘ draw a line
of light”* over whatever country they traverse.
In like manner, when we find hailstorms occurring forty times in
twenty-six years, or on an average T65 times a-year, from 1820 to 1846,
and then find that the years 1847) 1848, and 1849 afford us twenty, we
must not ascribe the whole, or, perhaps, any part of this to change
* Humboldt’s remark on Burn’s Bokhara Travels.