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from the observations of two distinct decades of years, which may 
vary, and often do vary much, in their meteorological conditions. 
In respect of Clifton in particular, something also is probably due 
to a considerable difference in elevation. 
From Exeter and Clifton I pass to the towns of Taunton, 
Barnstaple and Truro, the only towns west of Bath, returns from 
which—synchronizing with the Bath observations—appear in the 
Registrar-General’s Quarterly Reports. Nor do these returns 
afford a parallel for more than eight years, 1867-74, except in two 
cases out of the three, Taunton being deficient for the two first 
years of the decade. Hence I have been obliged to confine 
myself to the above eight years in making a comparison of the 
several seasons at the three towns in question with the same 
seasons at Bath. The results are given underneath in the same 
forms as in the Tables previously given at p. 223. 
TABLE IX. Comparative temperatures of Bath, Taunton, Barnstaple and 
Truro ; showing the mean temperature, the mean of all the highest, the mean of 
all the lowest, and the mean daily range, in each of the four seasons, from eight 
years’ observations, March, 1867—Februury, 1875. 
SPRING. 
Bath. Taunton.* |Barnstaple.| Truro. 
Mean Temperature 48.4 48.8 49.5 48.6 
Mean of all the Highest 56.8 58.5 57-7 56.8 
Mean of all the Lowest 41.3 40.4, 43.6 42.9 
Mean Daily Range 15.5 18.1 14.1 13.9 
* The Taunton returns being deficient for the months of April and May in 
1873, this year is omitted in calculating the spring temperatures, and the 
results consequently are the less trustworthy. 
