104 VIEWe OP NATURE. 



of the foiests, have become colder by 4 Fahr. during the last 

 thirty-three years.* 



. As the east coast of the United States may be compared, in 

 equal latitudes, with the Siberian and Chinese eastern coasts 

 of Europe, in respect to mean annual temperature, so the 

 western coasts of Europe and America have also very justly 

 been compared together. I will here only adduce a few in* 

 stances from the western region of the Pacific, for two of 

 which, viz., Sitka, (New Archangel,) in Russian America, and 

 Fort George, (having the same latitudes respectively as Got- 

 tenburg and Geneva,) we are indebted to Admiral Lutke's 

 voyage of circumnavigation. Iluluk and Danzig are situated in 

 about the same parallel of latitude, and although the mean 

 temperature of Iluluk, owing to its insular climate and the 

 cold sea current contiguous to it, is lower than that of Danzig, 

 the winters of the former are milder than those of the Baltic 

 city. 



33.3 

 Sitka . . . Lat. 57 3' Long. 135 16' W. 44.6 - 



55.0 



31.6 



Gottenburg . Lat. 57 41' Long. 11 59' E. 46.4 - 



62.4 



37.8 



Fort George. Lat. 46 18' Long. 123 58' W. 50.2 - 



60.0 



33.6 



Geneva . . Lat. 46 12' Altitude 1298 feet 49.8 - 



63.5 



25.0 



Cherson . Lat. 46 38' Long. 32 39' E. 53.l - 



71.0 



Snow is hardly ever seen on the banks of the Oregon or 

 Columbia river, and ice on the river lasts only a few days. The 

 lowest temperature which Mr. Ball ever observed there (in 

 1838) was 18. 4 Fahr.f A cursory glance at the summer and 



* Forry, Op. Cit., pp. 97, 101, 107. 



f Message from the President of the United States to Congress, 1844, 

 p. 160, and Forry, Op. Cit., pp. 49, 67, 73. 



