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July 63^.0 October . . . 50°. 



August . . . 62 .0 November . . 46 .0 



September ,.57.0 December . . 44 . 



I am, however, induced to think, that this calculation for the winter 

 months is rather too high ; yet if we deduct 3 or 4 degrees for each 

 month, still, the powerful influence which so vast a surface must 

 exert in equalizing the temperature of a superincumbent atmosphere, 

 will be necessarily admitted ; and this higher temperature of the 

 pea, I may again remark, becomes, therefore, one demonstrable 

 cause of the mildness of a coast climate, and one which could not 

 be expected to operate equally far in the interior of the country. 



" Tlie effects of this cause in moderating the temperature of situa- 

 tions differently exposed to it, are, therefore, well exemplified by 

 comparison ; thus the temperature of Dublin compared with that of 

 Warsaw — the one immediately influenced by that of the sea, the 

 other probably very little affected by it, though both are nearly iii 

 the same parallel of latitude, is as given in the subjoined note*". 



The effects of terrestrial heat, prevaihng winds, and cur- 

 rents, on the temperature of our southern atmosphere, are 

 next noticed ; and, in the succeeding chapter, Dr. Harwood 

 proceeds to point out those peculiarities which justly place 

 the Hastings' coast amongst the several situations on the 

 southern shore, where the benefits of a mild climate, and other 

 advantages afibrded by a proximity to the sea, are most ob- 

 servable. To this end we are furnished with a notice of its 

 topographical and leading geological characters, and of its 



Warsaw 



Petersburgh again, in lat. 59°. 56, from its situation, is necessarily but 

 little influenced by the ocean, and we consequently find the range of the 

 thermometer as follows : 



Mean of Warmest Mean annual Extreme range 



coldest Month do. Temp, of the Mean. 



8°. 6 65°. 7 38°. 8 57°. 1 



ButPekin, which is situated in latitude 39°. 54, or 20 degrees south of 

 Petersburgh, probably from the important influence of the extensive 

 Asiatic regions lying to the north and west, and the comparatively trifling 

 equalizing power it derives from the Pacific, suffers a range of tempera- 

 ture still more remarkable, as follows : 



Extreme range 



of the Mean. 



59°. 4 



North Cape, on the other hand, although having a latitude of 71° . 0, or 

 31° . 6 further to the north, from the influence of the ocean, by which 

 it is almost surrounded, experiences a mean temperature, in its coldest 

 month, of only 2°. 7 less than Pekin, it being 22^ . 1. 



