292 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
n average bread 
west to the Sierra Nevada on the east. It is a very flat valley, much 
also in a wooden cabin covered with earth, a friend of the writer ob- 
served the mercury at 110° and 112° during many of the days of 1850. 
On the north side of a large two-story frame house, with but one other 
house near, and that one several rods distant, the writer has observed the 
mercury at 109°. But Dr. Haille at Marysville, by hanging his ther- 
mometer in a draft of air in the back part of his office, where it was 
shaded by high buildings around, succeeded in keeping the mercury down 
to 102° during the summer of 1852 e sun rises clear in the east, rolls 
up over the heads of the inhabitants, drying and scorching everything im — 
sight, and sinks into the west—“ One unclouded blaze of living light.” 
And this is repeated day after day, and month after month. The hottest 
fte , 
time of day is about half-past five in the afternoon. The nights are 
cession. 
is marvellous ou go on board a steamboat at San Francisco at four 
o’clock in the afternoon, and find the passengers, all dressed in winter 
clothing, flannels and over€cats, huddled around the stove in the cabin 
t 10t anthra e morning at sun-rise, you find 
the Coast Range. From Benicia this range trends iniand, leaving < : 
bee 
The change from the cold climate of the coast to the heat of the valley We 
