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COLONSAY 



TABLE SHOWING THE MEAN MONTHLY AND ANNUAL TEMPERATURES 

 OF THREE INSULAR STATIONS SURROUNDING COLONSAY: those 

 for the first and second being calculated on a mean of 40 years 

 January 1856 to December 1895 and for the third on a mean of 

 10 years 1897 to 1906 inclusive. 



ward testify to the prevalence and force of the westerly 

 winds. Plants of foreign origin, which are found growing 

 extensively out of doors elsewhere only in the climatically 

 favoured counties of Cornwall and Devonshire, indicate the 

 mildness of the island's winter climate. In favourable 

 seasons, the peach and the fig ripen their fruit in good 

 situations on walls in the open. The heat of summer is 

 not, however, sufficient, as a rule, to bring wheat to perfec- 



