Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 4): Meteorology of India: an analysis of the physical conditions of India, the Himálaya, western Tibet, and Turkistan (Leipzig, 1866)

GROUP II, BENGAL AND BAHAR,
AND DELTA OF THE GANGES AND BRAHMAPUTRA.

Bakiira.

Bardvan.

Barisal.

Barrakpur.

Berhampur.

Bhagalpur.

Birbhiim.

Bogra.

Calcutta.

Chaiabasso.

Chandernagur.

Chapra.

Chendvar Hill.

Chittagong.

Chunar.

Dainajpur.

Damdam.

Deri.

Dhaka.

Faridpur.

Gaya.

Hazaribagh.

Hugh.

Jamira Pat.

Jessor.

Kaohar.

Kishanpur.

Maimansingh.

Midnapur.

Monghir.

Murshedabad.

Noakolli.

Pabna.

Parisnath.

Parnea.

Patna.

Rampur Bolea.

Rangpur.

Raniganj.

Rhotasgarh.

Silhet.

Tippera.

Tirhut.

The climate of Bengal participates in the modifications produced by tropical seas,
hut, at the same time shows the influence of the continental regions surrounding the
bay of Bengal. Along the coasts on either side of Southern India and the Indo-
Chinese peninsula, as well as in the Archipelago, we shall find much smaller vari-
ations ; but here the cool season occasionally still reminds one of the fogs of Assam, chilly,
at least for the tropics; and in the period preceding the rains a blaze of hot winds
from the north-west may be felt, though the temperature more than the moisture of
the atmosphere becomes affected, and so the days of heat rather contribute here to
help on vegetation to reach the very apex of tropical luxuriance; whilst higher up, in
Hindostan and the Panjab we meet with regions where heat and drought for a time
are scarcely less destructive to leaf and blossom than cold and drought in Tibet.

In the southern and eastern parts op Bengal, which I shall describe first, as
they include the districts the most characteristic in climate and the largest in