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APPENDIX, No. II.


Extract from a Meteorological Journal of King George’s Sound, Western Australia, for the year ending 30th April 1 832, by A. Collie, Esq., Colonial Surgeon.

Mean Temperature. No. of Days’ Rain
in the Month.
Total Quantity of Rain in the
month by Pluviameter.
8 A. M. Sunset.
May, 1831 61 63 13 2.2015
June 56 58 18 6.4014
July 52 56 16 6.4453
Aug. 53 56 17 6.6268
Sep. 55 58 14 3.2403
Oct. 58 59 11 1.6721
Nov. 60 61 10
Dec. 62 63 07 0.1295
Jan., 1832 67 65 05 0.2652
Feb. 67 66 04 0.8841
March 65 66 13 0.3356
April 61 60 11 2.5383

APPENDIX, No. III.


MEDICAL REPORTS.

Extract from Dr. Wm. Milligan’s Report on the Diseases of Western Australia, for the Year ending 31 December, 1831. (Addressed to the Governor.)

The favourable opinion I have already expressed of the influence of this climate on European constitutions, and of the place as a residence for invalids from India, is strengthened by a further experience of two years.

I have met with several individuals here, who on leaving England were great sufferers from dyspepsia, and disorders of the digestive organs, generally from the nervous affections which so often accompany these—from hypochondria, from asthma, and from bronchial