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during the whole time there were but two instances of the winds 
blowing directly across the straits for the entire day, in one of 
which it was from the east, and in the other from the west. The 
mildness of its temperature during the winter, is greater than that — 
of the same latitude in the United States, and it is very rare to . 
have any considerable fall of snow; but at the same time there 
are enough cold rainy days to make the weather on the whole 
seem more chilly than the bracing air of New England. During 
the summer there is less of rain and a greater proportion of warm 
pleasant weather than is enjoyed by the Middle‘and New England — 
states, but ordinarily there is enough rain to bring grain to matu- 
rity without artificial irrigation. There isa common saying here, — 
that one must keep his best fuel until March, and it is observed 
by foreign residents, that although spring seems pretty uniformly 
to open in February or the first of March, with fine weather, 
there are after this, several days if not weeks of the most uncom 
fortable chilly weather of the whole year. 
Broosa.—The inland situation of Broosa, and its pantianest a 
the foot of Mount Olympus,—which is 7000 feet high and pre- 
serves snow on its top throughout the entire year,—causes a 
greater annual range than exists at any of the sea-ports from which 
we have records, though not-so great as that of Erzeroom, Mosul 
and Oormia. ‘The effect of the sirocco is more «trying and op- 
pressive than at either of the places already mentioned, and 
I should think from my limited observations, that this wind there, 
is for some reason, peculiarly frequent. Witness the highest _ 
temperature as feconted: in the first table for March, April, and 
May, 1845, and for June, July, August, September, and Novem — 
ber, 1844. Still Broosa is considered a very favorable climate 
for invalids, and crowds of people flock there during the summer 
‘to recruit their health at the natural hot baths with which “ 
a of the place abounds. 
Smyrna.—The annual range of temperature at Smyrna ‘nb 
very great, but the average daily range, 14°, is wider than that of 
any of the other places frbvi which we Riive observations. Its. 
Winter consists in a damp, rainy season, and is rarely marked with _ 
slight falls of snow ; but Americans who sitive herein Bost 
morn this } sees of the year, uniformly feel more inconvenience 
than P s winters at home, but whether this 
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