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CLIMATOLOGY. 



TABLE 



Comparative Table of Temperatures on the East and 



* Columns 1., 2., and 3. are extracted from Dove's paper, published in the Report of the 

 British Association for 1847, being corrected for the diurnal variation computed for Toronto 

 by Dove, in the same paper. No. 4. is abstracted from a paper by J. S. M'Cord, Esquire, 

 printed at Montreal, and discussing observations of temperature for 1839 and 1840, and 1840-41, 

 12 times daily at the even hours. 



Column 5. is also from Dove's paper, and is reduced by his formula. 



Columns 6. and 8. are abstracted from a year's observations, by G. B. Roberts, Esquire, 

 of the Hudson's Bay Company, with a thermometer of Newman's construction. Column 6. 

 is reduced for the hours of observation, according to Dove's formula for Toronto. 

 Column 8. is transcribed without correction. Column 7. is an abstract of observations by 

 the Rev. S. Parker, also corrected by Dove's formula. 



The subjoined is an abstract of observations for seven years, made by Henry Poole, 

 Esquire, at Albion Mines, near Pictou, in Nova Scotia, and on the coast of the Gulph of 

 St. Lawrence. Mr. Poole ascertained the minima in the night by a self-registering ther- 

 mometer, and the maxima between 1 and 2 P. m., by a thermometer hung on the north side 



