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what excessively cold winters there are even in these parts of 
America, (very different as I have shown from Europe in: this, ) 
i and that the direction of the wind here is more northerly in win- 
' ter than in summer, while in Europe the reverse takes place. 
On that account the excessive quantity of 64” of rain in Mobile 
falls at Fort Snelling to 24”. 
If we go along the east coast upward from Savannah, past 
Charleston, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, to 
Houlton, from lat. 32 up to lat. 46, the more extended the ob- 
servations, so much the more decidedly marked is the maximum 
in summer, while there is also a less diminution of the annual 
‘ quantity than in the interior, namely a mean between 35” and 
5”. Ona third line falling between the two just indicated, pas- 
sing from Hauteville over Nashville, Louisville, St. Louis, Cincin- 
nati, Marietta, to Wisconsin, the same thing is found, the observa- 
tious at these stations covering several years. 
I have especially labored over the observations in the State of 
New York, with the hope that from the great number of stations 
and the frequency of the observations, the influence of lity 
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in the valley of the Hudson beyond Albany to the shores of the 
ohawk over the chains of the Alleghanies to the shores of the 
St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, by Mexico to Potsdam and 
Delhi, then along the south shore of the Ontario to lake Erie, 
Where the chief stations are Oxford, Cazenovia, Pompey, Auburn, 
iarity, that in the vicinity of the great fresh water lakes the aus 
tumn rains are somewhat stronger than the summer rains. It is 
on least in Toronto (Canada, ) in Fredonia, Springville, Milville, 
Rochester, Middlebury ‘and Fredonia. Here there is this peculs — 
‘chester, Lowville and Mexico. ‘This somewhat greater quan- 
appears to extend only over a limited space, and on the 
ghts of the lakes even to have no effect, for both Ontario and 
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