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MARITIME AND INLAND TEMPERATURES. 



[April, 



multiplying tlie excess of the monthly mean above the stated 

 degree by the number of days in the month. The average an- 

 nual temperature of Scarborough is 49*3° Fahrenheit^ that of 

 York 48*2° ; and yet it will be observed, that from April to Au- 

 gust the York temperatures are considerably the highest, and that 

 it is not until September that those of the seaside regain their 

 normal ascendency. The two places are only some thirty-five 

 miles apart, and yet, with a mean temperature lower by upwards 

 of one degree of Fahrenheit, with reference to annual plants, 

 York is decidedly the warmest locality of the two. 



