^8 INTRODUCTION. 



country is mountainous : The heat is greatefl In the 

 low lands, and decreafes as you afcend the mountains. 

 The town of Kingfton * is lupplied with water from 

 "wells ; the ground on which it flands rifes with a 

 gentle afcent, as you recede from the fea. In the 

 low parts of the town, the wells are but a few feet 

 deep, and many of them brackifh : The heat of the 

 water in fome of them is found to be as high as 82 ; 

 but they are evidently fo near the furface, as to be 

 afFedled by the heat of the feafons. As you afcend, 

 the wells are deeper ; and the temperature is nearly 80 

 in all of them : What variations there are, come with- 

 in one degree ; that is, half a degree lefs than 80, or 

 half a degree more. They are of different depths, 

 and fome not lefs than 100 feet ; though if they are of 

 half that depth, the temperature is nearly uniform. 



Near Rock Fort is a fpring, immediately at the 

 foot of the long mountain ; of which, though not a 

 great body of water, the heat is 79. All the places 

 mentioned, are but little above the level of the fea; 

 probably not more than the depth of the wells, at 

 the refpeclive places. 



The temperature of the air at Kingfton admits 

 but of fmall variations : The thermometer, at the 

 hotteft time of the day, and during the hotteft feafon 

 pf the year, ranges from 85 to 90. In the fevereft 

 feafon, and obferved about fun-rifmg, which is the 

 coldeft time in the twenty-four hours, it ranges; 

 from 70 to 77: It has been feen as low as 69, 



* Kingfton lies In latitude i""* 50' north, and in longitude 

 76° 32' weft. 



2 mi 



