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tember, the lowest was/65, and the highest 66; only one degree of 
variation in nine days. From the 2d to the 11th of November (30 
days), the range was between 62 and 67, and from the 14th to the 24th 
(11 days), between 60 and 65. From December 8th to the -24th (15 
days), the variation was from 54 to 58, only four degrees. 
The st uctuations of temperature incident to the climate of 
the Atlantic States are unknown here. We have none of those angry 
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noon to 11 p.m., forthe whole year, is at Philadelphia 11 degrees; at 
San Francisco 14. \'The change at the latter place is the more striking, 
from its greater rapidity. In the season of the sea breezes, a few 
hours will reduce the temperature fifteen, twenty, and on some of the 
warmest days, twenty-five degrees; and this. change is effected long 
before sunset. Under the head of winds, this subject will be more 
fully examined. ; ' 
Comparing one day with that succeeding, the difference is never 
gre The greatest difference during the year at noon, between two 
adjoining days, was 21 egrees. Turning to the table for 1839, at 
33, and in the third 35 degrees, Though no other month was equal 
to March in this respect, yet there were several other examples during 
the year, which exceeded the extreme at San Francisco. 
s regards the influence of the seasons on vegetation, the common 
order is reversed. The entire absence of rain in the summer months 
parches the soil, and reduces it almost to the barrenness of a northern 
winter. The cold sea winds of the summer solstice defy the almost 
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cease, as they do in September or October, comes a delightful Indian 
summer. In November and December the early rains fall, and the 
hese remarks apply only to a small portion of the State of Cali- 
fornia. Beyond the influence of the Bay of San Francisco and ils 
outlet, the sea winds are scarcely perceptible, even near the ocean. 
-)—We have received a great many communications on this subject, 
all of them corroborating the statement, “ frozen fish will come alive 
