CLIMATE. 



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By the study of this table, we can form an excellent idea of 

 the temperature of the different portions of the state, as com- 

 pared with each other, and as compared with those of some 

 other countries. So far as we know^, San Francisco has the 

 most equable and the mildest climate in the world. "Within 

 the tropics there are, no doubt, many places which have a 

 more equable temperature, but it is the equability of intense 

 heat. 



Funchal, on the island of Madeira, has probably the mildest 

 climate in the Avorld, but in equability it is inferior to San 

 Francisco. Benicia is thirty miles from the ocean, and has a 

 warmer summer and a colder winter than the immediate coast. 

 Sacramento has the climate of Xaples and Jerusalem through- 

 out the year : its summer being the same as that of Xew York, 

 but its winter fourteen degrees warmer. Fort Reading and 

 ISTagasaki have nearly the same figures. Fort Yuma, in the 

 Colorado Desert, in latitude 32° 45', is w^armer than New Or- 

 leans, in 29° 57'. 



A railroad, one hundred and eighty miles long, running 

 eastward from Oakland, a suburb of San Francisco, passing 



