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Part Second - Continued
Rainfall and Meteorological Phenomenon
It has already been stated that the summer rains in the Colorado Valley are generally brought on by South east winds; a decent regard for truth, however, compels a further statement that these rains are like Angel's visits - exceedingly few and far between -.
They may be graduated on a scale varying from 1 to 3 - by taking 1 for the minimum, 3 for the maximum the figure 2 may be considered a fair exponent of a general average for the season. 
In a country where it may be said with but little exaggeration that it does not rain at all nothing but refined [[courtesy?]] from a Mark Tapley point of view, can warrant the denomination of "rainy season" which is here given to the months of July and August.
In default of rain, however, and in point of fact, of all dew and moisture also, the wind may be said to blow not only from all around the compass but all the year round.
As it sweeps over the parched and burning "mesas" it gathers the heat from the furnace-like soil and no matter when one tries to play "hide and seek" with old Boreas he is sure to find you with more than unpleasant premonitions of a certain fate supposed - in theology - to exist hereafter for the wicked somewhere within the circumference of this mundane sphere - 
Reasoning from analogy one might suppose that all the sand carried by the river to the sea is brought back again on the wings of the wind to pester poor mortality in blue breeches upholding the dignity of the American flag in Arizona.
It finds an entrance through doors and windows, no matter how closed, and circling in gentle and thick eddies all over the rooms finally