214 Climate of the Cape of Good Hope. [No. 123. 



neither attest its accuracy, nor explain how the means, there given, 

 have been obtained. 



" The mean temperature of Cape Town, inferred from a Meteorologi- 

 cal Journal kept there for several years, is 67^° — the mean temperature 

 of the coldest month is perhaps 57° — hottest 79° — mean of three recent 

 winters 58° — of three summer months 77° — least heat during sum- 

 mer 63°." 



" The temperature of the district of Stellenbosch deduced from the 

 observations of a single twelvemonth is 66^° — extremes 87° and 50°. 

 The temperature of Zwartland appears to be 66^° — extremes 89° and 

 54° — the exposure of the thermometers is at neither place external ; they 

 are suspended in spacious well-aired halls." 



" At Tulbagh, situated in a valley of the great chain of mountains 

 which divides the western from the eastern provinces of the colony, the 

 mean temperature of the year is 66f ° — that of the coldest month 55^° — of 

 the hottest 80^° — extremes 94° and 92° — mean of the three winter 

 months 56V*, of three summer months 79° ; least heat in summer 61°." 



