WORLD'S WETTEST PLACE.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 67, 27 August 1917, Page 4

WORLD'S WETTEST PLACE.

GOO INCHES A YEAR. "It is a remarkable fact that in India, one of. the most arid countries in the world, there is one spot that has the record rainfall of the whole earth," said Dr. .William Roberts, British agricultural expert.in India' ? to a correspondent of the Washington 'Post.' "This place is Cherapunji, in Assam. It is in the path of the monsoon and in a valley, and there is almost constant rainfall. "The average rainfall is 600 inches a year, or 50 feet, which is nearly a foot a week. This seems almost beyond comprehension, when it is considered that the rainfall of the United States, for instance, ranges from 16 inches to 35 inches. In some places there has been as high as 65 inches of water in a year, but this is the exception. "During the rainy season in Cherapunji the waterfall is heaviest, but there is rain throughout the year. Notwithstanding this terrific moisture the inhabitants of the district raise vegetables and grain. They do this by building terraces which carry the water off."