| Locality. | Inches. | Mean of Years. |
Locality. | Inches. | Mean of Years. |
Locality. | Inches. | Mean of Years. |
Locality. | Inches. | Mean of Years. |
Locality. | Inches. | Mean of Years. |
| Kanawana | 2.78 | 10 | Mildura | 10.90 | 10 | Mundi-Mundi | 7.11 | 6 | Menindie | 9.56 | 22 | Milparinka | 9.09 | 17 |
| Killalpanina | 5.92 | 18 | Swan Hill | 13.66 | 16 | Balranald | 12.37 | 21 | Condobolin | 18.98 | 18 | Bourke | 16.42 | 17 |
| Port Augusta | 9.08 | 43 | Ballarat | 26.86 | 30 | Bombala | 24.23 | 15 | Blue M'nt'ns | 38.28 | 27 | Glen Innes | 33.68 | 18 |
| Adelaide | 29.09 | 46 | Melbourne | 25.55 | 45 | Eden | 35.59 | 30 | Sydney | 49.66 | 41 | Grafton | 39.59 | 27 |
| Locality. | Inches. | Mean of Years. |
Locality. | Inches. | Mean of Years. |
Locality. | Inches. | Mean of Years. | ||||||
| Innaminka | 5.43 | Innaminka | 5.43 | Innaminka | 5.43 | |||||||||
| Mt. Howitt | 10.05 | Charleville | 19.48 | Cunnamulla | 15.32 | |||||||||
| Aramac | 17.48 | Miles | 27.33 | Warwick | 29.00 | |||||||||
| Mackay | 70.09 | Maryborough | 47.24 | South Port | 62.62 |
It is worth notice that at Birdsville, on the lower Diamantina, not far distant from the Lake Eyre district, the mean rainfall recorded for five years was only 3.16 inches. Captain Sturt described that place as an absolute desert. When I saw it in the year 1862, after a great flood, it was a pastoral paradise.
