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Meteorological Observations in Western Asia. TT 
Abstract of the “foregoing, showing the annual average and range o of 
_ temperature in the specific years—arranged in the order of the aver 
_ age temperatures. . 
(Altitude. N. Lat. titan Vans A. D.JAv. 
: toa ° °. 
~|.$9574 4037}. 1838 4361 | -20' | St | 
5000? | 3730 | 45 10 | 44 & *45 1 3.| 89 4 86 
“1417 |9859| 1844 58-01 2 | 86 | 62 
405 |2910| 1844 58:22 241 98 | 7} 
100 | 411 | 3945 |°43& 44! 59:51 Ti alee Be Soc 
“50. | 39261277 |'43&°44| 61-2 2% | 8 |-59 | 
2500 | 3147 | 3514 1/743 &°44| 62:80 3 | 94 | 58 
19 | 4310 | 43 &°44| 67°80 30 | 114 | 84 
50. | 335013523] 1843 | . 68-32 44 | 90 | 46 
The former of the above tables, it is thought, sufficiently ex- 
phiins itself. The comparison instituted between the temperatures 
of the several places mentioned in the latter, should be considered 
only,as an approximation to accuracy, since, as will be seen by 
reference to the first table, some of the records from which it was 
prepared were incomplete; and those not so, want for perfect uni- 
formity as to the hours of the day, and even as to the year, when 
the observations were made. Still, with these, and any other im- 
perfections which the strictest scrutiny may detect in the mate- 
nals collated, it is believed that the table yet gives, what is de- 
‘ signed, a correct general idea of the relative temperature of the 
several posts of observation. 
Tn regard to the meteorology of Keston Asia, one or two 
peice peculiarities are worthy of special notice. During a 
period of several weeks in the warm season, rain is rarely or 
hever known to fall. In Syria this period embraces the months 
” 3h June, July, August, and September, with but little rain in 
May and October. At Mosul the dry season commences a month 
earlier than this, and at Erzerogm a month later, but in its termi- 
nation there is not observable the same disregard to simultaneous- 
ness. The other places from which we have records, (Oormia 
excepted,) although exposed to a long dry season during the 
, are scarcely ever, owing to their relations to large bodies 
of Water, entirely destitute of showers for a whole month at a 
time. The summer of 1845 has been remarkable for excessive 
drought i in Asia Minor and the neighboring part of Turkey in 
Europe ; so excessive, indeed, as to prove fatal to a farge propor- 
tion of all the crops on the ground, and to lead the Sultan to pro- 
hibit exportations of grain from the affected region, lest the con- 
ee ee naire uring the en- 
suing winter. 
