It is said tn be an Asiatic mytli that the soul ot a poet passes int'i the body of a grasshopper at death, fr.im the fact of the latter singing until it starves. The wettest place in the world is at Cherra Ponjee in the Khasi Hills of Assam. The fall of rain for a single month lias ranged from 100 to 200 inches.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3076, 2 April 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)
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64Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3076, 2 April 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)
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