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It may be useful now, to sum up in a few words, the chief 
advantages which Bath enjoys above the other towns we have 
been comparing it with in each of the four seasons of the year. 
In spring Bath has a higher mean temperature, while the night 
temperatures are not so low, and the mean daily range is less, 
when compared with Greenwich and Royston especially, 
In summer the mean temperature is not different from that of 
the other towns, but the extreme night and day temperatures are 
both of them more moderate, the mean daily range being still 
more contracted than in spring, in relation to those towns. 
In autumn the mean temperature is only very slightly higher 
than that of other places, the extreme day temperatures scarcely 
so high as some of them, but the nights are not so cold, the 
minimum not falling so low. 
In winter the mean temperature is decidedly higher, the 
extreme day and night temperatures also both higher, though the 
mean daily range shows scarce any difference. 
Let us now pass from the east to the west of England, without 
going north of the Bristol Channel, in our comparison of the 
temperature of Bath with that of other towns. It is hardly to be 
expected that there would be as much difference here as in the 
case of the eastern towns. Still the inquiry is not without interest. 
The chief town in this direction, and which seems to offer itself 
first as a fit one for comparison, is Exeter. Unfortunately I 
know of no observations made there which synchronize with those 
made at Bath, so that an exact parallel between the two towns 
cannot be obtained. The same is the case with Clifton, which 
like Bath is much resorted to by invalids as well as by others, 
and which on this account, as also from its proximity to Bath, 
quite deserves to be considered along with it in its meteorological 
relations. Yet in neither case are we entirely without observa- 
tions—even carried on for a series of years, though a different 
series from that of the Bath observations—as a ground for 
comparison to a certain extent. Dr. Shapter, in his valuable 
