O f a different character from the I shim are the
streams in the south of the province, for all of them
may be said to be abortions, since they fail to
reach the ocean or any great body of water like the
Sea of Aral, into which some geographers assert they
once ran. Thus the Sari-Su rises 200 miles south of
Akmolinsk, and, running in a south-westerly direction,
receives many affluents from the north, but none
from the south. For the last 150 miles of its sluggish
course it forms the boundary of the south-west corner
M e t e o r o l o g y
B a r o m e t e r . T e m p e r a t u r e . R a in f a l l .
R e l a t i v e
H u m id it y . C lo u d .
| Mean.
j Maximum. |
Minimum. ¡
i
Maximum.
Minimum.
Total in
month.
I Maximum
in a day.
Day of
month.
Mean.
Minimum.
Mean.
Jany. . 29981 30*819 29*268 —6-70 35-42 i 31'54 o"i8 0*09 20 79 56 5-6
76iS 782-8 743'4 -215 ¡81 -353. 4 ’6 2'2
Feby. . 29*981 30*434 29*378 -4-54 28-76 -40*36 0-19 0*07 4 77 52 5-6
7br5 773'° 746-2. -203 -1-8 — 4O’2 4'9 n
March. 29*780 30*316 29154 17*96 43-70 mSm 0*22 O il 24 80 50 5'9 756-4 7700 740-5 - 7-8 63 —24-2 5'7 2-8
April . 29*737 30*371 29*158 29*12 54-32 3*02 O92 0*39 25 75 40 5'5
755'3 771-4 740-6 — 7*0 12-4 -I&I 2 33 9 9
May . 29*772 30-178 29032 50'l8 83-30 31-64 1*21 0-43 30 59 14 5-1
756-2 766-5 737-4 70*7 283 <— O'2 30877*0
June . 29*477 29*930 28*969 66*74 88*70 4118 3’33' 0*74 29 66 26 5 ’3
7487 760-2 735-8 193 315 5-1 84-4 18-7
July • 29*501 29-953 29134 68* 18 94*64 48*56 2*66 0*94 3 71 38 5*2
7493 7608 740-0 20-1 34'8 Ç-2 6 7 3 2 39
August 29*587 29*890 29*024 64*94 87*08 47'48 3-64 1*32 14 74 38 5'5 7513 759'2 737'2 18-3 30-6 8-6 92533-6
Sept1. . 29*579 29*914 28*934 52*52 77'54 36*68 1-59 0*55 9 78 30 6-2
7513 759'8 7349 il -4 25-3 2-6 40-4!3 9
Octr. . 29*878 30-284 29*288 38*48 6 i*i6 9-5° O’12, 0*12 3 73 38 5*8
758-9 70Ç-2 743'9 3-6 IÒ-2 -125 3 'I 3 ‘t
Novr. . 29*981 30*410 28*989 22*64 44*60 —0*22 0*17 0*15 9 84 32 7’6
7615 772-4 736-3 -5'2 7*0 -IT9 4 ’2 3 9
Decr. . 30-355 31-107 29-583 ~ 9 5 8 27*68 -43-60 o‘o8 004 5 80 60 3 7
777*0 790-1 751-4 -\T _ 1 23-1 -2-4 --42'OTo2t"a0l 7*0 i eariy
average 29*8co 31-107 28-934 32-54 94*64 - 43’6o 14-32 1-32 14 Aug. 75 14 5-6
7569 790-1 734'9 0.3 34'8 — 42' 0363-433-6
In the above table the readings of the Barometer (corrected to the temperature 320 Fahrenheit)
inches and millimetres ; Relative humidity is given in parts of 100, which represents saturation,
of the province, the volume of its water being gradually
diminished by the sands of the Steppe, till, having
attained a length of more than 500 miles, its last
drops are absorbed in the Aitsi-Kul, in the midst of
a sandy desert. In the same desert, 26 miles eastward,
is another marshy lake called the Saumal-Kul, into
which feebly flows .another river of similar character,
the Chu, that also helps to form the southern boundary
of the province. Other rivers, rising in the same
region as the Sari-Su, expend their waters without
D ir e c t io n o f W in d .
Number of observations taken thrice daily.
N u m b e r o f D a y s w it h
■ af much | il| s !jR 'h Fahrenh®it and Centigrade; and Rainf
me air will carry. For Cloud, 10 equals a completely covered sky.
VOL.