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quent rain, mild winters and cold summers ; the eastern side 

 has a continental or inland climate, i.e., a clear sky, dry 

 atmosphere, little rain, warm summers, and severe winters. 



Stockholm, Upsala, and Christiania, have pretty nearly 

 the same annual mean temperature,* viz. 42.12° Fahrenheit,! 

 which is 4.5° lower than that of Copenhagen, but the winter 

 is in the first mentioned place 5.6° colder than in Copen- 

 hagen, whereas the summer is only 2.2° less warm. The 

 mean temperature of Ullensvang, in the province of Bergen, 

 is 1.18° higher than that of the first named place, whereas 

 the winter is 4.5° milder, and the summer 1.1° colder. A 

 somewhat similar result is obtained on comparing Dron- 

 theim to Umea. At the North Cape the winter is but little 

 severer than in Stockholm, but the summer heat is not greater 

 than the heat of the autumn in Stockholm. In Enontekis, a 

 small town in Lapland, the summer is 11.2° warmer, and the 

 winter 22.5° colder, than at the North Cape. The following 

 table, shewing the mean temperatures, will render the com- 

 parison easier. 





Latitude. 



Year. 



Winter. % 



Summer. 



Stockholm, ...... 



59° 80' 



42.12° 



25.3 



61.2 



Ullensvang, 



60° 



44.3 



29.8 



90.1 



Drontheim, ' 



63° 30' 



32.8° 



23. 



59° 





64° 



35.3° 



14. 



57.8° 



North Cape, 



71° 



32° 



24.2 



43.2 





63 3 30' 



28.5 



2. 



54.5 



* By mean temperature, is meant a mean number extracted from the 

 register of every day during a number of years. 



t The temperatures which were given according to Reaumur's scale, 

 we have reduced to Fahrenheit's scale throughout this paper. — Ed. 

 Cal. Jour. Nat. Hist. 



X By winter is understood the three months of December, January, 

 February ; — by summer, June, July, August. 



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