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HIGHEST TIIERMOMETRIC RANGE. 



Land speculators residing at Bay Biscayne, who have 

 axes to grind, and those who have visited the Indian 

 river country, go into ecstasies over the superiority of 

 the climate of the southern Atlantic coast, and spread 

 their opinions broadcast over the land. Brinton, in his 

 excellent work on &quot;Florida and the South,&quot; remarks: 

 &quot; The &quot;highest winter temperature observed anywhere on 

 the mainland of the United States was at Fort Dallas on 

 the Miami river, and at New Smyrna, some miles north 

 of it, both on the east coast of Florida. Furthermore, 

 their range is less than anywhere else. During four 

 years that the army officers watched the thermometer at 

 Fort Dallas, the highest point reached by the mercury 

 was ninety-five degrees, the lowest thirty-five degrees ; 

 a range therefore of sixty degrees in four years.&quot; The 

 highest range of the thermometer for the last three years 



