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TEN YEAKS IN SWEDEN. 



be well in leaf, and yet we had an excellent harvest. The 

 summer is either very dry and hot or very rainy. 



The yearly downfall of rain, snow, and hail appears to be 

 scarcely one-fifth so heavy as in tropical lands, but rather 

 greater on the west coast than on the east. According 

 to Forsell, in the middle of Sweden, in an average of 

 thirty-six years,, it did not exceed 17 inches yearly. The 

 hottest month is July, and the coldest is February. 



The mean yearly temperature at Stockholm in 59 20', 

 128 feet above the sea, is reckoned at + 5 7', and the cold had 

 once been known there as great as 32 C. In Stockholm the 

 longest day is 18 Jh. ; the shortest 5h. 54m. At Umea the mean 

 yearly temperature is + 2, and at the North Cape the same. 



I insert a table of the lowest and highest temperature in 

 every month for the last seven years after centigrade kept 

 at Grardsjo, Wermland, lying in 59 J north lat. 



