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World ; and in this comparison we shall begin with the Asia- 

 tic Pole, and suppose it to have a temperature of — 3°^, and 

 to be placed in 80° N. Lat. and 95° of East Long, from Green- 

 wich. 



Distance from the Mean Temperature. 



Asiatic Pole. Obs 



Enontekies, 



Uleo, 



Umeo, 



St Petersburg, 



Stockholm, 



Moscow, 



Warsaw, 



Astracan, 



Vienna, 



Pekin, 



Nangasaki, 



Seringapatara, 



Columbo, 



From these differences, which are almost all negative, it ap- 

 pears that we have assumed too great a degree of cold for the 

 Asiatic Pole. If we make it O- of Fahrenheit, we obtain the 



* Reduced to the level of the sea by Humboldt's rule. 

 f The mean temperature in 1814 was 78°.25, and in 1816 75°.75. 

 rection is appUed for its elevation above the sea. 

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