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animals in our temperate climates that can alfo 

 luftain it, what difficulty is there in admitting , 



that 



cm In a warm country, the negroes could not fleep for 

 cold when the thermometer was at 68*^. Park's Travels. — • 

 The heat in Cayenne is from 70'^ to 93*, Prebngy Memo'ire. 

 In the town of Batavia in Java, while- the lad Chinefe em- 

 bafi}- was there, between 88"^ and 92^, Macartne/s Ei?ihajyt 

 V. \.p. 251. — During Peroufe's voyage, the thermometers, 

 when higheft, flood at 95°, Voyages. — They were in the 

 iliips ; and it is to be remarked that cold is greater at 

 feai The greatell: heat in Japan, while Thunberg was 

 there, was 98*, Travels. — In one excurfion in the Cape of 

 Good Hope, it was 100", Sparman^s /'Vydr^<?/.— At Aleppo, 

 lOi**, RuJePs Natural Hljiory of Aleppo. — At Fort George, 

 on the coaft of Coromandel, the thermometer flood at 

 104°, Philofophical Tranfanions, 1780. It was equally 

 high in Paris 1720 and 1793, Kir-vjan on the Temperatiirs 

 of different latitudes^ p. 75. Atmales de Chhnley Tom. 1 8. In 

 Goree, the heat was from 104'^ to 106°, Prelojig, Meinoire, 

 — In the interior of the Cape of Good Hope, 108"^, Bar- 

 ron'' s Travels. — At Pekin, 1773, from 108° to 110°, 

 Kirivan, p. 93, fro7/i Mem. de Scnvan. Etrang. — At 

 Pondicherry, 1769, the heat was from in" to i'7°, 

 Centil Voyage dam les mers de L'Inde, torn. 1 . p. 490. 495. 505. 

 Browne one day faw the thermometer at 1 1 6°, Travels in 

 Egypt and Syria. Bruce faw it ftand at i 14^ in Sennaar, 

 and 119° at Chendi. M. Monneron told Prelong, that 

 at Mtiufulipatam, he had feen the thermometer at 118'^, 

 in the Ihade ; and an officer affured him, that he had feen 

 it rife to 131° at Podor. During a voyage there, the ther- 

 mometer, in the cabin of a vefTel, ftood at 133^, Adatfon 

 HiRcire Naiurelk du Senegal, /. ^1. And this is ^he great- 



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