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CHAP. II. 



CLIMATE OF CHINA INFLUENCED BY MONSOON WINDS NO WET 



AND DRY SEASON AS LN INDIA QUANTITY OF RAIN AT CANTON 



AT FEEING — INCREASE OF TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY 



GREAT FROM MARCH TO MAY TEMPERATURE AT PEKING 



AT CANTON IN THE GREEN AND BLACK TEA COUNTRIES 



FOO-CHEW-FOO AMOY FROST SEVERE BUT NOT CONTINUOUS 



ICE PRESERVED THROUGH THE SUMMER TEMPERATURE OF 



SHANG-HAI — CHUSAN GREAT VARIATION OF TEMPERATURE 



PRINCIPALLY IN WINTER — DAILY VARIATION SMALL CLIMATE 



GENERALLY SALUBRIOUS — TEA TREE EXPOSED TO GREAT DIF- 

 FERENCES OF CLIMATE CLIMATE MOST SUITABLE. 



The climate of China is greatly influenced by the 

 periodical winds termed monsoons, which are fa- 

 miliarly considered to prevail during six months of 

 the year from the N. to N. E., and throughout the 

 remaining portion from the S. to S.W. ; thus 

 stamping the same general features on the climate 

 of this extensive empire. The one is attended by 

 cold, frost, and dryness, thus giving a check to 

 vegetation ; and the other by heat and moisture, 

 stimulating its vitality in a high degree. These 

 divisions of the year, however, can hardly be con* 

 sidered as constituting a wet and dry season, similar 

 to those of India ; for in China it rains throughout 

 the year. Thus at Shanghai much rain and snow 

 is said to fall in the winter season ; and light pass- 

 ing showers are frequent at Canton and Macao, as 



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