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summers cool, contrast very strikingly with the continental 

 climate of the interior or Eastern Europe. In the northeast 

 of Ireland (54 56 X ), in the same latitude as Konigsberg, the 

 myrtle grows in the open ground just as it does in Portugal. 

 The temperature of the month of August in Hungary is 69.8 ; 

 in Dublin (upon the same isothermal line of 49) it is 61 at 

 most. The mean temperature of winter descends to 36.3 at 

 Buda. In Dublin, where the annual temperature is only 49, 

 that of the winter is, nevertheless, 7.7 above the freezing- 

 point, or nearly four degrees higher than at Milan, Pavia, 

 Padua, and all Lombardy, where the mean heat of the year 

 reaches 55. In the Orkney Islands, at Stromness, a little to 

 the south of Stockholm (there is not one degree difference in 

 their latitudes), the mean winter temperature is 7, or higher 

 than that of London or Paris. Stranger still, the inland 

 waters of the Faroe Islands never freeze, situated in 62 of 

 north latitude, beneath the mild influences of the west wind 

 and the sea. Upon the coast of Devonshire, one part of 

 which has been termed the Montpellier of the North, because 

 of the mildness of its climate, the Agave Mexicana has been 

 known to flower when planted in the open air, and orange- 

 trees trained upon the wall to bear fruit, though only scantily 

 protected by a thin matting. 



" There, as at Penzance, Gosport, Cherbourg, and the coast 

 of Normandy, the mean temperature of the winter is 42, 

 being but 18.5 below that of Montpellier and Florence." 



