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flourishes as luxuriantly as in Portugal. The mean tern- 

 perature of the month of August, in Hungary, is 21 Cent. 

 (69.8 Pah.) ; in Dublin, which is situated on the same 

 isothermal line (or line of equal mean annual temperature) 

 of 9 J Cent. (49.2 flab.), it is barely 16 Cent. (60.8 Fah.) ; 

 the mean winter temperatures of the two stations being 

 2.4 Cent. (27.7 Fah.) at Buda, and 4.3 Cent. (398 Fah.) 

 at Dublin. The winter temperature of Dublin is 2 Cent. 

 (3.6 Fah.) higher than that of Milan, Pavia, Padua, and of 

 the whole of Lombardy, although they enjoy, on the mean 

 of the whole year, a temperature of at least 12. 7 Cent. 

 (54.8 Fah.) Stromness, in the Orkneys, not half a de- 

 gree south of Stockholm, has a winter temperature of 4 

 Cent. (3 9. 2 Fah.), being nearly as mild as London, and 

 milder than Paris. Even in the Faroe Islands, in lat. 62, 

 under the favouring influences of the sea and of westerly 

 winds, the inland waters never freeze. On the lovely coast 

 of Devonshire, where Salcombe Bay has been called, on ac- 

 count of its mild climate, the Montpellier of the North, the 

 Agave Mexicana has been seen to blossom in the open air, 

 and orange trees trained against espaliers, and only slightly 

 protected by mats, have borne fruit. There, and at Pen- 

 zance and Gosport, as well as at Cherbourg in Normandy, the 

 mean winter temperature is above 5.5 Cent. (41.8 Fah.), 

 that is, only 1.3 Cent. (2.4 Fah.) lower than that of 

 Montpellier and Florence. ( 393 ) Hence we perceive in what 

 a variety of ways the same mean annual temperature may bo 

 distributed in the different seasons of the year, and the im- 

 portant influence of this distribution, whether considered in 

 reference to vegetation, to agriculture, to the ripening of 

 fruits, or to the comfort and well-being of man. 



