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The general result shows a greater variability in the climate of Jersey. The 
daily range during six years of mutual good observation was 11:6° in Jersey and 8° 
in Guernsey, and the mean monthly range 27:9° and 20-6° respectively. AIl these 
edo of climate are further illustrated by a careful comparison of tabulated 
results. 
The barometric pressure in Jersey generally varies less than in Guernsey; and the 
two islands by no means correspond in range or actual pressure. They occupy 
different positions with regard to the great atmospheric wave. 
Jersey is less cloudy than Guernsey; the number of days of rain-fall is smaller, 
and the quantity of rain is also smaller. The two islands are exceedingly dif- 
ferent in respect to humidity, both in amount and season. The monthly range of 
humidity is greatest in Jersey. 
On the whole, Jersey is drier and warmer than Guernsey, and hasa clearer atmo- 
sphere; it is hotter in summer and cooler in winter. The pressure of the air varies 
less frequently, but within larger limits; heavier rain falls there, but more rain 
falls in the year, and it falls on more days, in Guernsey. 
The climates of Alderney and Sark have not been carefully observed. It is 
generally considered that both are more bracing than the larger islands, 
All the Channel Islands agree in some general conditions of the climate. A 
general summary of these will be useful. 
The equability and duration of autumn are, in ordinary seasons, extremely re- 
markable. Storms, and occasional heavy rains, usher in this season ; but they are 
not succeeded by cold. In the intervals, up to the end of the year, the weather 
is remarkably fine and genial, with no night frosts. From the 10th October to the 
end of the month is what is called St. Martin’s summer, and the weather is then 
singularly agreeable. The same kind of weather often recurs in the middle of - 
December. 
During the spring months, east, north-east, and north winds, and sometimes 
north-west winds, are frequent and violent, and often extremely disagreeable, They 
feel cold, but do not bring down the thermometer. They are often very dry. The 
night temperature is still comparatively high, hoar frost being rarely seen, except 
in exposed, bleak, and high positions, and in the months of January and February. 
February is the coldest month of the year. 
The days in summer are rarely hot; the nights are cool and pleasant, almost 
without exception. The latter part of summer is generally fine and pleasant, 
passing into early autumn without perceptible change, 
A Journey to Harran in Padan-Aram and thence over Mount Gilead into the 
Promised Land. By Cuarues T, Bren, Ph.D., F.S.A., P.R.GS., §c.* 
Towards the close of the year 1861, Dr. Beke, accompanied by his wife, under- 
took a journey to Harran, the residence of the Patriarch Terah and his descendants, 
and thence over Mount Gilead into the Promised Land, by the road taken by the 
Patriarch Jacob in his flight from his father-in-law Laban. 
Harran is a village situate at the eastern extremity of the Ghuthah or Plain of 
Damascus, which Dr. Beke identifies with the Land of Uz (Hutz) of the Book of 
Job}. It is usually distinguished as Harran-el-Awamid, or Harran of the Columns, 
from three Ionic columns, which, with numerous other remains, prove that in the 
intervening ages there was here a Greek or Roman city. The name of this city is 
lost, Harran having resumed its Scriptural appellation before the twelfth century, 
when it was described by the Arabian geographer Yakut as “one of the towns of 
the Ghuthah of Damascus.” 
At the entrance from the west is a draw-well of great antiquity, which Dr. Beke 
identifies with the well at which Abraham’s steward, Eliezer of Damascus, met 
Rebekah. Some of the water has been analysed at the Royal School of Mines, by 
direction of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, and found to contain 109-76 grains of solid 
* See also Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. xxii. pp. 76-100. 
+ See ‘ Origines Biblice,’ pp. 137-153, 
