INTRODUCTION. 



Owing to its insular position, and to the eflFeot of the Gulf Stream, 

 which surrounds nearly the whole .coast, the climate of Irelaud is, 

 especially in the west, more moist and equable than in the rest of 

 Era;ope under the same degrees of latitude. As the best authority 

 on the subject of climate, we have gladly availed ourselves of Dr. 

 Lloyd's elaborate essays* on the meteorology of Ireland, from 

 which the following tables are borrowed • — 



Table I. — Meam, Temperature of the several places of Observation in, Ire- 

 land, for the Form Seasons of the Yeair, amdfor the Entire Tear : — 



From the above table it appears that the mean annual temperature 



* "Notes on the Meteorology of Ireland, dedaced from Observations made in the 



Yeai' 1S5V— Royal Iriih Academy Transactions^ Vol. xxxil, p. 411. "The Climate of 



Ireland and the Currents of the Atlantic, Ac." By the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, 



Dublin, 1865. 



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