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the sea, is a reasonable question, to settle which, facts are need- 
ed that we do not yet possess. The summer of Smyrna is warm 
compared with that of any of the aforementioned places, and on 
this account, it is the more to be regretted that our records from 
this place are deficient for the months of July and August. 
Beiriit.—The warm climate of this place is what might. be 
expected from its latitude ; and the slight annual range of tempera- 
ture, from: its fine exposure to the open sea, from which the wind 
prevails at all seasons of the year. The force and constancy of 
the southwest wind-is such as to be constantly making its impress 
upon the land; the sand rolled up by the sea, is raised. into the 
air and driven in such vast quantities into the interior, southeast 
of the city, as to form there, high ridges, which by gradual ad- 
vances of a few feet each year, are covering up trees, gardens, 
Vineyards, and even houses themselves when they are not re- 
moved in anticipation of the calamity. - 
~ Mosul.—No one can cast an eye at the records of this place, 
without being struck with the extreme heat of the weather du- 
ting the summer months. _ So excessive indeed is the temperature 
that it will not be strange if some of the readers of this article are 
incredulous with regard to the accuracy of the observations, from 
Which the above abstract was made. But the writer may state, _ 
that before the -place of observation was fixed upon for the 
Summer of 1844, three thermometers were suspended several days 
in succession, in the most eligible situations in the house in which 
he then resided, (a house favorably situated too, it being on the 
highest ground in the city, ) and that among these a place was cho- 
Sen, which, while it was not affected by the confined air of the 
Court; was also in no way exposed to the direct rays of the sun, 
and as little as possible to the reflected rays. Moreover, the opportu- 
nity was afforded of occasionally comparing the temperature thus 
-Siven, with that of a thermometer suspended in a good position, 
at the country residence of the French Consul, among the ruins 
of ancient Nineveh (?), and there is therefore every reason to be- 
lieve, that local causes had very little effect on the mercury of the 
tmometer with which the record. was made. 'The tempera- 
ture at 9 o’clock P. M. , strongly corroborates this, as does also the 
fact that the removal of the thermometer into the sun at noon, 
ways cause the mercury to rise at once to 144° or 146°. 
nt of this excessive heat, all who are able, have rooms 
