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Dr. Holyoke's Edimaic of the Excess of ITcat and Cold. 



If this obser 



be well founded, then (whatever may 



be the fate of Dr. Priestley's and D 



Ingenho 



experi 



ments) our pine woods are a source of cold, which Europ 



g 



deprived of 



there is no doubt 



but that 

 kind, are 

 compared with 



trees of the evergreen, as well as of every other 



few, and thinly 



over that continent, 



they must ha\ 



in 



than they are in America at p 



Salem, Novemlei\ 1790. 



past ages, or 



* 



# 



l'^ ^ ^^ ^ ^f ^Jlf greatest HEA T and COLD, and of the Mean of tie greatest Ileal and Cold, 

 collected from Observations made for a course of Years in twenty different Cities in Europe; 

 as exhibited m ^Ae Eptemendes Moteorologlca' Palatiiui>: and at Sn'-m, in North America, 

 for seven Yea^-s: shelving the Excess both of Heat and Cold in America, beyond that of Europe 

 in the same Latitudes ; by the Thermometers both of Mr. Reaumur, and Fahrrnhrif 



Place. 



>f 



Lat. 

 north 



o 



Am 



Stockholm 



Copenhagen 



Berlin 



Sagan 



Erfurt 

 ;Mons 



Prague 

 Wurtzburg 



Manheim 

 llatlsbon 

 Buda 



Pelssenberg 

 M. St. Andex 



Tegernsee 

 St. Gotthard 

 Geneva 



Rochelle 

 Padua 



^Marseilles 

 Rome 



55:40 4 

 52:32U 

 51 :42 5 



51:04 



50:25 

 50 : 04 



49:46 

 40:27 



48:56 



47:4014 

 47:47 5 



5 

 5 

 4 



3 

 4 

 5 



Greatest Heat 

 by thermom. of 



5 



5 

 4 



5 



5 



4 



Mean 



47:37 



46:31 

 16:12 

 46:09 

 45 :22 

 43:17 

 41:53 



3 

 4 



SaliTn, N, A. 142:31 



Reaumur. 



+24,8 



+ 23,G 



+ 28,0 



+28,6 



27,G 



28,0 



+28,3 



31,3 



+ 27,2 



+ 28,7 



+27,0 



+23,3 



5,6 



+ 24,5 



+15,5 



27,0 



27,5 



+ 29,0 



+ 26,0 



+ 24,3 



7 I +32,!) 



Fahrenheit. Reaumur. 

 87,80 1+23, 1 



85,10 

 95, 



+ 



+ 







 96,30* 

 94,10 

 95, 

 + 96,35 

 + 102, 4 



93,15 

 + 96.57 



92,75 

 84,35 

 89,60 



+ 22,12 

 +25. - 







26,16 

 +25, 6 

 + 25, 4 

 + 26, 7 

 + 27. 5 



6 



+ 

 + 

 + 



87,12 +22, 



06,87 1 + 13 

 92,75 

 93, 9 



^lean of the 

 greatest heats. 



KalirouUcit. 



+83,98 

 +81,77 

 +89,37 



+90,86 

 +89, 6 



+89,15 

 +92,07 

 +93,87 

 +89, 6 

 + 79, 

 +90, 

 + 76; 

 +89, 

 +83, 



Greatest Cold 



+ 25, 



+ 26, 

 +19, 

 + 25, 7 



9 



2 



1 



6 



J 



5 



97,25 

 + 90, 5 

 + 86,67 



+ 25, 3 

 +26, 



4 

 6 



+26, 



+ 25, 



_+23, 



+247l9| +86jl 



5 



+62, 

 +88, 



+90, 

 +91, 



+89, 

 +85,4 



7 

 7 

 1 

 8 

 5 

 3 

 9 

 5 

 4 

 6 



o 



+ 106 +28, 9 



+97,02 



b}- therm 



ilieaumur, 



21,5 

 13,8 



of 



15,8 

 23,7 

 20,5 

 17,5 

 22,0 

 22,4 

 18,2 

 20,2 

 15,2 

 18,2 



17,6 

 19,7 



19,0 



13,4 



9,5 



10,8 

 3,5 



0,4 



19,1 



17, 

 18, 



Falireulipit. 



16,37 



+ 0,U8 



— 3,55 



—21,32 



14, 1 



7,37 



5 



4 



8,95 



13,45 



2, 2 



8,95 



7,60 



12,32 



10,75 



+ 1,85 



+ 10,03 



+ 7, 7 



+ 24,13 



+ 31, 1 





Mean of the 



greatest Colds. 



! 



Keaumur. 



—18,75 



12, 9 



14, 5 



19,66 



6 



9 







7 



3 





15, 



23, 

 19, 

 16, 



13, 



15, 

 12,77 



14, 1 



13, 5 



13, 9 



16, 3 



9, 7 



6, 7 



6, 7 



2, 



+ 0-,65 



Fahrenheit. 

 — 10,19 



2,98 



0,G2 



12,23 



3, 1 



+ 1,18 

 12,77 



4, 



+ 1, 2 

 2,42 



+ 4,26 

 + 0,28 



+ 1,13 



+ 0,73 



4,67 



+ 10, 2 

 + 16,93 

 +16,93 



+ 27, 5 

 +33,46 



12,75 +3,31 



11, 



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