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as in Carolina, will furpafs that of boiling water, 

 and their eggs fufFer no injury ; and if there are 



animals 



At Benares, when the thermometer in the fhade flood at 

 loo®, it rofe only to i io° in tlie fun. When it flood in the 

 fun-fhine at 113° and 1 18'', expofed to a hot wefterly wind, 

 it was 104** and 110° in the fhade, Philofophical TranfaEllons^ 

 i'753. — In CafFraria, when the heat was 102° in the fhade, 

 it was 106° in the fun, Barrovo' s Travels in Africa. — At 

 Goree, in the fhade, it was 86°, in the fun 99^, Memoiret 

 Journal de PhyftquCi 1788, p. 224. Antiaks ds Chimis. — 

 At Gondar, in Abyffmla, the thermometer rofe from 81^ 

 or 820, in the fhade, to 113" in the fun ; it is not impro- 

 bable from fome difturbing caufe, Bruce' s Travels. — But 

 the mod furprifing accounts of folar heat are tl^at in Paris 

 1793, while the thermometer in the fhade was 94^, it flood 

 at 144° in the fun, Annates de Chimii, torn. 18 — At Mont- 

 pellier, in the year 1705, in the fhade it was about ieo° ; 

 expofed to the rays of the fun twenty-eight minutes, it 

 rofe to 212°, the heat of boiling water, Memoires de PA- 

 cademie Royale, 1706, p. 12. 13. — I cannot avoid fufpeeT;- 

 ing that the conclufions from both thefe inftances have 

 been erroneous ; that the heat has, in the former cafe, been 

 owing to fome furrounding objeds, or the refleftion of a 

 neighbouring wall, and in the latter cafe that the inflru- 

 ment has been imperfedl. J hermometers it has been 

 thought were then open at the top ; but it was certainly 

 otherwife in general. However in each of thefe cafes, 

 the heat might be very great. There is much reafon to 

 believe, that, except the obfervations made at fea, mofl of 

 all we have are erroneous. 



The heat of many climates would be. to us almofl intoler- 

 able. The greatefl cuftom can hardly reconcile the inhabi- 

 tants of northern regions lo the burning heat of the foutb- 



