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[1]. Supposing the rain-fall to average thirty-six inches per annum, there is a fall of three cubic feet on every square foot of ground, or an acre receives twenty thousand nine hundred and eight (20,908) gallons of water per year.

[2]. In the river Loka in Sweden, and the Dead Sea, respectively; the latter containing four hundred thousand times more solid matter than the former. Ocean water has about 2,500 grains per gallon.

[3]. N. C. Medical Journal, Vol. 1. p. 177.

[4]. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, April 1879, p. 236–51.