ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 



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west coast of the new continent, exact thermometric obser- 

 vations are still almost entirely wanting ; but the mildness 

 of the winters in New California shews that the west coasts 

 of America and Europe, under the same parallels of latitude, 

 probably differ little from each other in mean annual tempe- 

 rature. The subjoined table shows what are the correspond- 

 ing mean annual temperatures, in the same geographical 

 latitudes, of the west coast of Europe and the east coast of 

 the New Continent. 



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