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rHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



[Part I. 



highest temperature of the day between ten and eleven 

 o'clock in the morning. 



In the low country, ingenuity has devised so many 

 expedients for defence from the excessive heat of the 

 forenoon, that the languor it induces is chiefly expe- 

 rienced after sunset, and the coolness of the night is 

 insufficient to compensate for the exhaustion of the 

 day ; but, in Kandy, the nights are so cool that it is 

 seldom that warm covering can be altogether dispensed 

 with. In the colder months, the daily range of the 

 thermometer is considerable — approaching 30° ; in the 

 others, it differs httle from 15°. The average mean, 

 however, of each month throughout the year is nearly 

 identical, deviating only a degree from 76°, the mean 

 annual temperature.^ 



^ The following Table appeared | able from tbe care taken by Mr. Caley 

 in tlie Colombo Observer, and is valu- | in its preparation ; 



Analysis of the Climate at Feradenia, from 1851 to 1858 inclusive. 



