78 Meteorological Observations in Western Asia. 
All of the places recorded in the table, are subject more or less, 
at all seasons of the year, to siroccos or hot and dry winds, which 
bring with them, as is supposed, the climate and temperature 
- found over the interior and extensively desert country. These 
winds sometimes prevail for several days together, in which 
case they never fail to produce an excessive languor and lassi- 
tude. At Mosul, the air at such times is filled with particles 
of sand, and however, close one may shut up his. apartment, 
he will be notified of the existence of the wind, by the oppres- 
sion of his breathing, and by the deposit of this fine sand 
around him, and in every crack and crevice to which the air 
ean find access. May it not be that the effect produced upon 
animal life by this wind, is in all cases to be attributed) as 
much to inpalpable substances which it brings into the lungs, as 
to its heat and the quantity of moisture which it abstracts fect 
the body. The peculiar color of the air during some siroccos 
can hardly be accounted for on any other supposition. . By care- 
fully comparing the registers from which the abstracts were 
prepared, it is found that these winds visit at the same ane 
all those parts of Asia Minor which are reported. As the high- 
est temperature of each month generally takes place during the * 
sirocco, if one occurs, it has been attempted to present some 
re] 
evidence of. this lt s by noting in the first table the — 
date of the highest. temperature of several months of 1844 and 
45. March, April, May, June, July, and August, 1844, and 
February and. March, 1845, may be referred to as well marked 
cases of this kind. Those instances however which appear ex- — 
ceptions in the table, are not in fact exceptions to our remark, 
since during the sive the highest heat of the month may not | 
oceur: e. g. Feb. 29th, 1844, gives us 62° as the temperature 
of Trebizond, and July 21st of the same year, though not. the 
warmest day of that month in Broosa, was yet nearly so; the 
temperature being 92°. In the northern part of Asia Minor the 
Sirocco ordinarily blows from the south; in Cyprus, I am told, it 
as regularly blows from the north; but in Syria, as the records 
show, no such uniformity of Lisette seems to exist. It may 
come from N,E., E., or S. 
Ripon wees to the peculiarities of climate at the several leu 
' cords collated in the tables were kept, the remarks 
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