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geteally lower than in cold... The opinion alluded to, Icon- 
ceive, arose partly from hypothetical views of the subje 
and if I seastest rightly, it marca supported only by tie 
or ware observations recorded b: Chalmers in his histo- 
F God South Carolina, which were sgl at atime when 
thermometrical experiments were not very common, and 
when the standard temperature man, was rated much 
too low. Farther refutation of this opinion is perhaps un- 
necessary. The experiments J neve made, with all the care 
in my power, are so numerous, and their results are so con- 
seats that if. I do not deceive myself, they put es- 
tion beyond the shadow of doubt fix asa fact, that if 
the standard temperature of man, in a temperate climate, 
be about 98°, (which [ believe is the nearest approximation 
to the truth,) in a hot climate, it will be higher, varying with 
atmospheric variation from 981° to 101, 
e third conclusion I believe to be perfectly accurate ; 
I say Sakaoes because it is difficult, if not ipower; to col- 
lect more than presumptive evidence on 3 subject. How- 
amo 
all of one nation, or e 
same family? The siglo of siege t ra~ 
ces of men is the more remarkable, since face several 
of them, whose temperatures agreed, there was nothing in 
common but the air they breathed, some feeding on animal 
food almost entirely, as theVaida,—others chiefly on vegeta- 
ble diet, as the priests of Buddho,—and others, as Europe- 
and Africans, on neither exclusively, but on a mixture of 
arther, that the temperature of birds, of all animals is 
the ated that of the mammalia next, that of the amphi- 
bia, fishes and certain insects, next in degree,—and lowest, 
eneral... Moreover since in general, as far riment | 
and observation have yet gone, there appears to be a deci- 
ded connexion between the quantity of oxygen consumed 
by an animal and the animals heat, is there not good reason 
to consider the two in relation of cause and effect. If ani-. 
