PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



[PART I. 



highest temperature between ten and eleven o'clock in 

 the morning. 



In the low country, ingenuity has devised so many 

 expedients for defence from the excessive heat of the 

 forenoon, that the languor it induces is chiefly expe- 

 rienced after sunset, and the coolness of the night is 

 insufficient to compensate for the exhaustion of the 

 day ; but, in Kandy, the nights are so cool that ft is 

 seldom that warm covering can be altogether dispensed 

 with. In the colder months, the daily range of the 

 thermometer is considerable approaching 30 ; in the 

 others, it varies little from 15. The average mean, 

 however, of each month throughout the year is nearly 

 identical, deviating only about one degree from 76, the 

 mean annual temperature. 1 



1 The following Table appeared I able from the care taken by Mr. Caley 

 in the Colombo Observer, and is valu- | in its preparation ; 



Analysis of the Climate at Peradenia, from 1851 to 1858 inclusive. 



