342 Results of Meteorological Observations at Wick. 



the monthly temperatures ; and the following are their result- 

 ing averages, with corrections : 



The above corrections are the differences of the mean 

 monthly temperatures by a Fahrenheit's thermometer at Gos- 

 port, taken nearly at the same time in the mornings and even- 

 ings as at Wick, and the monthly means by a self-registering 

 thermometer ; and are applied to the average temperatures of 

 the morning and evening at Wick, in order to obtain an ap- 

 proximation to the real mean temperature of that place. But 

 as these corrections were obtained from simultaneous obser- 

 vations here, perhaps they have made the approximate mean 

 temperature of Wick, nearly half a degree too high. From 

 these results, which were made to compare the temperature 

 of the atmosphere at the remote part of Scotland with that at 

 the southern parts of England, it appears that the difference in 

 the approximate mean temperature at Wick, and the real 

 mean temperature at Gosport, Hants, in 1823, was only 4^ 

 degrees, and in \S25,Jive degrees, notwithstanding the former 

 place has a greater north latitude than the latter by 7° 14'. 



I am yours, &c. 

 Gosport, March b, 1827. Wm. BurneY. 



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