276 TEMPERATURE OF SINDH. 



moon is in the increase, will be full of worm, 

 whilst that cut in its decrease will be quite free. 

 In Sindh I was assured that the like opinion 

 prevails. 



The late Dr Stock, in his able report to Go- 

 rernment on the Plants and Articles of Cultiva- 

 tion suitable to the climate of Sindh, observes 

 that " Sindh is an extra-tropical country, the 

 average temperature of whose summer months 

 rises to 95° Fahr., and whose winter months 

 have an average temperature of 60°. The 

 highest temperature of the hottest days in sum- 

 mer fi-equently rises to 110°, less frequently to 

 120°.* The lowest temperature of the night in 

 winter is a few degrees below freezing, and wliat 

 is more important with regard to vegetation, 

 the temperature of a winter day [average] 

 ranges between 80° and 40°. 



'' Many places have occasionally as high a 

 temperature, but none such a continuance of 

 hot weather [owing to the deficiency of rain], 

 whence arises the high summer average. The 

 winter of Algiers, with an average summer 

 higher than any recorded. 



* I have repeatedly seen the thermometer at 140' and upwards 

 in Julv. 



