8 | 5.22 | 8.05 | 5.18 | 4.00 | 6.55
| 2.20 | 1.75 | 3.70 | 4.08 | 4.20 | 5.69
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It will be observed that in February the counter-trade and extra-tropical
belt had moved up from Key West, and a drought, which sometimes intervenes
between the concentrated counter-trade and the inter-tropical belt,
appeared there in February and March. In April, the inter-tropical belt
appeared at that point, and went on increasing till September. As the
counter-trade commenced moving north in February, an increased
precipitation above the mean commenced at all the more southern stations
under the concentrated-trade--an earnest of that irregularity which
followed, and marked the season as the most excessive of the century.

In March, the intervening drought appeared at the other posts on the
peninsula, and also at Fort Moultrie, followed _much more closely than
usual_, by the inter-tropical belt of rains. In April, the drought
appeared at Fort Barrancas and Mount Vernon Arsenal (the wave of
precipitation having moved to the west), and slightly in comparison at
Baton Rouge.

If now we look at the condition of things, _west_ and _north_ of the
curving line of concentrated trade, from Fort Brown, at the mouth of the
Rio Grande, in South-western Texas, through that State, the Indian
Territory, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Northern Pennsylvania, to the
Atlantic, we find the thermometer every where in January below the mean.
The following table will show this, and the precipitation for that month
and February:--

TABLE III.

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| JANUARY. | FEBRUARY. | MARCH. |
|-----------------------------------------------|
| 1854. | Mean. | 1854. | Mean. | 1854. | Mean. |
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_Western Texas._ | | | | | | |
Fort Brown | 59.34 | 60.41 | 62.45 | 63.63 | 71.87 | 68.95 |
" Ewell | 50.47 | 52.92 | 58.12 | 57.61 | 70.34 | 67.00 |
" Inge | 47.24 | 49.46 | 56.04 | 55.39 | 67.54 | 62.63 |
| | | | | | |
_Indian Territory._ | | | | | | |
Fort Towson.