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(1) Alaska: 



Sitka 



(2) KiiHtt'rii Asia : 



I'ckiii 



0('li<>LHk, A.jaii, Nicolajdvsk 



Mini's orNertscliin.sk 



(I!) (;(Mi(ral and West Siberia : 

 Jakutsk 



Bainaul 



Tob()lnlc, 'i^ara, Tscliim 



BoH'oslowslt and JJoronov , 



(1) (J()ntral and Nortliorn lluflsia : 



"WclikiUHtjiip;, Glazov, Slobodskoi 



Ardatov, Baladma, Gorbatov, Tambov, 



birsk, WolHk 



Anandiis, lloval, Baltischiiort, Kij^a ;. , 

 Yozki, Kaluga 



(5) Southern liussia : 



Kursk, Orel 



Sud8(!ha, Lugan, Catlioriiiboi^burg 



Odessa, Nicolojov 



(C) Southoastorn Steppes : 



Astracban, l''t. Alexander, Uralsk 



llaimsk, Kasaliusk, and FortPcrovski 



(7) Caspian : 

 Baku, Lenkoran, Asbiir-Ado 



Sim- 



Tho contrasting cliuiiites are those of European Russia and Eastern 

 Asia, the first having? the greatest amount of cloud generally in J)e(;ein- 

 ber, the last in July or August. The greatest part of Siberia is a hind 

 of transition, having the least amount of cl()n<l in March and the gn^at- 

 est in October or November. Barnaul has very little cloudiness from 

 February to August, so as to form a transition between the steppes on 

 the southwest, and the countries on the east of it. Yet it must be said 

 that the accuracy of this table is not very great, the amount of cloud- 

 iness not being observed in former times in Kussia, and only such des- 

 ignations as clear, cloudy, overcast, &c., being given, and sometimes 

 also the diff(5rent (jualities of clouds, [cirro cvmnhis,) ^c,. It seems 

 especially that the amount of cloudiness in youthern liussia is less than 

 that Shown in Wild's table, and the same probably api)lies to the south- 

 east st('i)])es. In regions wheic the sky is clear tbi- sonui weeks together 

 the observers will record "cloudy " if only a few clouds appear, &c. A 

 cloudiness of from 70 to 72 at Odessa and Lugan seems to me quite 

 impossible. 



I have already spoken of the summer winds in the monsoon region. 

 In the region of the southwest winds the change from winter to summer 

 is far less marked, the winds being a little more from the north in sum- 



