Mr Egeson's System

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 22, 7 August 1890, Page 4

Mr Egeson's System

Egeaou -has forwarded, to the 'Sydaey^own' aiM Ciiuntry asuppleineut to^ ilia ; > sV«athei\ Sys" em. The. dGcumeiit 1 contaia'a ' in"' diagram form ■kqd6uuliß.;\of^' ! 6yclicSL''.^vari > atioiiß, : ' the. -average annual rainfall of New South "VVales, the torkLrainfall in New-South Wai^aVfiroiu">ranuai^''l:r to May, .3, XiW^-i^e. r,riiinfttll in N.S.W: -and for. 'the '-half year endi jig June 30, "l^)p; ; fluctij\atiou of weekly .-, &n^'.monjLliiiy Aiictu&iion at Sydney, 1 ifii 7 . 9U ;■ pfediotibn i bjf drought arid repiies to critirisutis as. published ; history of climate IS^6 to 1830, along with monthly maps of the daily .rain-' fall in i ; ;New iSouth: Wajes from 1989; : 46^1890, Most jof : the inf or m ation on . these topics is -Qonyeyed by diagrams, which uiust be seen and studiod in • o^derito- be understood; The author writing pn jthe L2pd of July, says : • ••^This; ■dayKexpires the nine months' which, on; October 2,-18891 I mentioned as the cud of the rainy period, and the comniencemeut of a three year's drought, in repetition of the \J9tLti 10729] The events of the past nine inontha have so completely my 7; anticipations that I feel dispoged to '-place^it '' : 6h record as evidence supporting cyclical variation. . Even of the epidemic of influenza which appeared in 1 826, as in 1 890, under the iufluence of similar cosmical vTariatious, t «.j the distribution of '^meteoric duec, and coaaequeat riariation ..p(,i^e, temperature of space, which the radiation of heat from the sun arid earth, and causes variation in climate', the same being iurther modilied ,by ; the configurations of the planets with regard to the sun, and .by : the.moon with regard to the-tarth." . Alter, ijupting f rom various early journals accounts of the rainfall at various periods of our history, Mr Egesou continues : " The extraordinarp rains of 1826 and 1890 stand out among all others of which we' have recprd^aßs the only ones ;. comparable. I have elsewhere shown that the early -• tej^njs 1 tit^this benfurj^" were comparable witfr v:the; glater ; ♦ seventies' at average p'inteVyals;^:'pf >>ixtyrfpur. to sixty -six years' Arid that the early * twenties' were in the later eighties, also sixty-f our to sixtysix years apart. That of the last few years, ■1886-87, were copies of 1822- --' 23| lUBK a copy pf 1824, aud 1889 of : 1825. : As much of 1890 as has passed is a most extraordinary copy of 1826. In the '-; latter year it was said of the. January rains that so much rain had not fallen at that time ol: the year for the preVio.us twenty-jive years. •• imilarly womayeay.and of tbe Bourke and other north ;west districts in particular that so much rain has not fallen for the time of the' year during tbe last twenty-six years i.e., since 1864, And regarding: the April rains in 1826 it was said : \We do oot : . remem ber so much rain to have fallen iv Sydney ever siuca^ the memorable year 1806, which ; t w. e'nty years p re viously . SuuiUfirlywe may say that we do not remember so much rain as foil in March", aud April since 1870 ; also ■:^en'ty : years;p'reyjou'3ly.' Iv the face of so much evidence it cannot be said that a/ pjospective drought in repetition of 1827 and 1829 would be a matter ■; of mere, coincidence." These ©xtrricts, sufficiently show that if we .■understood Mr^Egesion's system aright the drought has» already begun, aud ds destined to continue until 1893. The reputation of the system therefore hangs in thebalance, «md the facts of tbe weather will speedily settle the whole controversy either one way or the other.