240 Climatology of the United States. 
es. 
On page 89 Mr. Blodget speaks of “the Rocky Mountain 
98 a tnrowing out some exceptionable districts.” We su 
before heard of rating therthometers. On page 92 he says “the 
great plains of the Columbia River form a climatological basin.” 
It has puzzled us nota little to ascertain what is a climatological 
asin. We can only guess that it must be a lasin having a cl 
mate ; but this does not remove the difficulty, for we are no less 
perplexed to determine what is a basin not having a climate. On 
page 345 he says, “As a pendant to the general notices of the 
quantity of water falling in the winter months, some distinctions 
Should be made,” ete. Here again we were foreed to consult 
Webster and found eight significations of the word “pendant;” 
ut after a strenuous effort to determine in what sense Mr. 
abandoned the 
pt as fruitless. On page 348, he says, “the contact o 
heric volumes with those altitudes rid 
- eS ‘ . . . ; 
applied to the distribution of rain and heat. 
Occurs several times on a single page, and frequently in such a 
n the sense of 
Uniform, but we have searched our dictionaries in vain for any 
could form any distinct idea of what ‘that tone of proof’ aie 
we might assent to the possibility of the demonstration yao 
alluded 10, 
Wwe will refer to pages 346 and 347. Mr. Blodget frequently bat 
et al ree 
