UNIVERSITY 



MADEIRA METEOROLOGIC. 



PART I. 



INTRODUCTION TO THE CHIEF FEATURE TO BE 

 INQUIRED INTO. 



THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA has been so abundantly visited 

 by the educated classes of this country during more 

 than a century past, and for the very sake of its climate, 

 that that climate should be now very fairly understood 

 amongst us. And perhaps it is in many a private family, 

 as well as some medical treatises. Yet, though I have 

 looked over not a few of these latter, there are cer- 

 tain particular points in Madeiran weather, points, too, 

 wherein the island differs quite abnormally from other 

 places not far either north or south of it, of which I 

 have not yet found as clear accounts as would seem to 

 be desirable in the present day. 



Every one, of course, knows Madeira's geographical 

 position in what, to Great Britain, is the sunny south, 

 in latitude 33 only from the Equator, where it lies off 

 the much -heated and sunburned West African coast 

 of Morocco, and perhaps they are somewhat misled 



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