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countries; but some statements are to be found, here 

 and there, concerning the temperature occasionally 

 observed, from which it is to be inferred, that the 

 earth is heated, at least for short periods of time, very 

 much above the atmosphere ;* and it is probable that 

 this excessive elevation of temperature is necessary to 



duced from the Register kept by Mr. Robert Thompson, by order of 

 the Garden Committee : — 



* Memoranda concerning the Temperature immediately below the 

 Surface of the Earth, occasionally remarked in different Countries : — 



Egypt 



Tropics 

 Oronoco 



France 



Chile 



New Grenada 



Cape of G. Hope 



Bermuda 



133°— 144°. 



Often 126°— 134°. 

 Coarse white sand at 



140°, the atmosphere 



being 84-5°. 

 118°— 122°; onee 127°, 



the atmosphere being 



91-6°. 

 113° — 118° among dry Boussingau.lt. 



grass. 



° usual summer temp. 



85 

 1 foot below surface. 



159° under the soil of a 

 bulb garden. 



142° thermometer bare- 

 ly covered. 



According to Edwards 



and Colin. 

 Humboldt, Fragm. An. 

 Humboldt. 



Arago as quoted by Ed- 

 wards and Colin. 



Hay, in Zovdon'a Oard. 



Mag. vi. 437. 

 HerscheirjKS.S'.). 



Col. Emmett. 



