Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.1): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

CLIMATE. 297 This table partly shows the state of the weather during three spring months. The gi-eatest quantity of rain in the gage at the end of the month of November did not exceeed 2-6 inches. At St. Martin's Cove, near Cape Horn, after thirty days' obser- vation, the rain-gage contained eight inches ; so that although Childe bears the character of being a very wet place, it is not one-third so bad as Cape Horn. The time of our visit to San Carlos was certainly the finest part of the year ; and I believe that the weather we experienced was unusually dry even for the season ; therefore, the above table does not present a fair criterion of the climate : I do not, however, think it is by any means so bad as has been represented.