Military Posts of the United States. 



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with about the same proportion of rain, and much mcilre snow, 

 at the west. t^^> ^^Rt 



" The following table may serve to compare the annual mean 

 temperature at some of the military posts in the United States, 

 with that at several places on the other side of the Atlantic, 

 and shows that it is considerably greater at the latter, and 

 especially in the higher latitudes. 



From this it appears that in the higher latitudes the average 

 difference for the same degree of mean temperature is 1 4° 30', 



