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which is in the fame latitude with Rome; and from meteo-. 
rological obfervations it appears, that the degree of cold about 
Pekin is as'fevere in winter, as in fome of the northern parts. 
of Europe’. 
* Du Halde and other authors have obferved, that-the degree. of cold in fome 
parts of China is very fevere in winter. In the inland parts of Nortle America, and: 
on extenfive continents, the degrees of heat and cold are found to-be much more- 
violent than in iflands or places bordering on the fea in the fame latitude, as the; 
air that blows over the fea is liable to lefs variation in thefe refpects, than. that: 
which }lows over large tracts of land.. 
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