152 Mi iscellaneous Intelligence. 
perature over plains, mountains, and plateaus, would be necessarily 
different, and we cannot immediately infer the state of the ph 
the two latter instances from what may exist in the former. Some ot te” 
results of observations made on some of the hills and mountains of Ie 
land during the nance Survey, as contained in the volume recently — 
published by Col. James, were referred to as illustrations of these genet 
views. te 
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no such power as before of penetrating clouds or other screens; ® 
the earth and its atmosphere became a kind of trap for the solar 
