Note 7 — Chapter XLIV · THE PRIMORSK OR SEA-COAST PROVINCE.

In the least rainy month, for instance, February, the precipitation, whether of snow or rain, represents at Nertchinsk Zavod only one fifty-eighth part of the rainfall of the wet season. So again at Vladivostock the difference between the snowfall of winter and the rainfall of summer is still greater, the snow representing a quantity about 840 times less than the rain. In 1858, Venyukoff experienced on the Ussuri 45 consecutive wet days, and the annual rains drench the harvests of the Cossacks of the Ussuri, who have not yet learned to imitate the Chinese in accommodating their agriculture to the alternations of the seasons.