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Some practical evidence as to climate has come forward at the shareholders' meetings of the northern Railways of Chile, the Coquimbo, Tongoy, and Carrizal and Cerro Blanco. In each of these districts torrential rains have occurred, which are all reported as unexampled. Long residents state that rain was formerly little known, and such was my observation in connection with the district. One reason why the weather is deserving of attention is that no change has taken place in the water-surface or vegetation. A similar change to rain in the Suez and Cairo district is attributed to the Suez Canal, but it is a matter worthy of consideration whether we are not really entering on a cycle of change. So far as Atacama is concerned, if at any former period there were rains, the conditions of habitation must have been different from those which have been so long considered to apply to the rainless district.
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CLARKE, H. Climate of Atacama. Nature 25, 9 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025009a0
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