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Jamaica 29.

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This station of course is even more moist than the last, though I was lucky enough to miss rain.
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On the road further west I passed many very beautiful small bays and coves, with islands 
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covered with cocoanut palms. Then mangroves 
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began to be common. No more stops were made except for gas at [[strikethrough]] Port Antonio [[/strikethrough]] Annotto Bay. From there to Stoney Hill the road is very rough and tiring, but the vegetation is still quite dense.
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In order to compare the various regions a brief summary of climate and rainfall is given from the paper on soil types.
There are two fairly distinct wet seasons during the year, namely, (1) May and June and (2) September, October, and November, but all the summer months (May to November) are more or less rainy, where the winter months (december to April) are relatively dry. Rain usually falls in heavy mid-day showers, but the number of sunless days in a year is small. In general, a possible correlation between rainfall and elevation is indicated, an increase in height of 15 feet being accompanied by an average increase of rainfall of about one [[strikethrough]] foot [[/strikethrough]] inch, at least for
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elevations above 475 feet. An average annual rainfall of over 200 inches is recorded at Moore Town in Portland, and other sta-tions within this parish frequently register rainfalls above 100 inches. The rainfall of Kingston is less than 33 inches often. The air temperature fluctuate only through a small range during the year and through-out the day. Temperatures above 91° F. or below 68° F. are rare in Kingston, average range about 74° to 83°.
Humidity of air is high, ranging at Kingston between 75 and 80%. In wetter districts, the humidity is maintained much nearer satu-ration point during rainy weather. Prevailing winds are north-east or north-north-east in A.M. and south-east in P.M., for practically all months. The island has been visited by destructive gales on the average about once in every twelve years during the past 200 years. Hurricane weather is usu-ally experienced in July to September, but occasional blows have occurred before June and later than October. The cyclones generally first appear in the Windward Islands, and move west-north-west at a rate of about