CLIMATE. 29 
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PLACES. Ble = 3/218 # Ae z/8 Se LATITUDE. 
San Francisco .. .|49/51/52/55/55)56 57/51 58.57 54l51 54 37° 48 
Benicia: vFerccxe '47|52/53/57/59 67/67/66) 64'62|54'47|| 58 58 03 
Sacramento ..... 45|43)51'59]67,71/73/73)66/64|52/45|| 59 38 34 
Fort Miller...... 47/53]56|/62|68 83'90/83|76/67|55'48)| 66 37 
Fort Reading .. ./44/49/54/59/65,77)82/79)71)/62/52'44)| 62 40 28 
Fort Yuma...... .|56/58]66/73]76 $7)92/90)86/76/64|55|| 73 32 43 
New York ..... 81)30/28]47/57 67]73/72|66|55)/45)/34|| 51 40 37 
New Orleans .. . .|55/58/64/70)75 81|82/S2]78/76/62155)| 69 29 57 
Steilacoom...... 38]40/42/48/55 60|64|63|57|52/45/39)| 50 47 10 
London......... 37)40/42/46)53/58|62)62/57)50/44/40)/ 49 51 29 
City of Mexico. . . /52/54/61/63| 66 65|65/64/64/60/55/52|| 60 19 26 
Naples....... 46]47|51/56|64,70/76]76]69/61|53/49|| 60 40 52 
Funchal........ 60|G0|62]63|64/67)70)72| 72/67/64) 60)| 65 32 38 
Honolulu....... 71/72|72|'74. 76)77 78)79)78/76/74)73)} 75 21 16 
Jerusalem....... 47)/53]60|54/66;71/77/72|72/60|/58/47/| 62 31-47 
COON aig eiaisseose 52/55|/62170|77|81/83/82}80)73|65/57/| 69 23 08 
Nagasaki....... |43|44|50|61/69,77|50/83|78|66|53/47|| 62 32 45 
« By the study of this table, we can form an excellent idea of 
the temperature of the different portions of the state, as com- 
pared with each other, and as compared with those of some 
other countries. So far as we know, San Francisco has the 
most equable and the mildest climate in the world. Within 
the tropics there are, no doubt, many places which have a 
more equable temperature, but it is the equability of intense 
heat. 
Funchal, on the island of Madeira, has probably the mildest 
climate in the world, but in equability it is inferior to San 
Francisco. Benicia is thirty miles from the ocean, and has a 
warmer summer and a colder winter than the immediate coast. 
Sacramento has the climate of Naples and Jerusalem through- 
out the year: its summer being the same as that of New York, 
but its winter fourteen degrees warmer. Fort Reading aud 
Nagasaki have nearly the same figures. Fort Yuma, in the 
Colorado Desert, in latitude 32° 45’, is warmer than New Or- 
leans, in 29° 57’. 
A railroad, one hundred and eighty miles long, running 
eastward from Oakland, a suburb of San Francisco, passing 
