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the eternal forests that shroud our north- 

 western coast we find again the delicious cli- 

 mate of Europe, while Tarlary and China 

 repeat the phenomena of our own. For the 

 enjoyment of life and for the richness of 

 agriculture , we should have been more ad- 

 vantageously situated on the opposite side of 

 the Continent. 



The Olive requires a climate whose mean 

 temperature is equal to fifty-seven degrees 

 seventeen minutes, and that of the coldest 

 month to forty-one degrees five minutes. 1 In 

 the United States, where the mean temper- 

 ature of the year is fifty-seven degrees five 

 minutes , that of the coldest month is only 

 five minutes, with many days far more in- 

 tense. The capriciousness of our climate is 

 still more dangerous to delicate vegetables 

 than its inclemency ; the difference of tem- 

 perature in a single day is almost equal to 

 that of the whole year, in the South of Italy. 

 The Olives near Charleston were rendered 

 barren by the vernal frosts, which congealed 



1 See De Humboldt's Essay on the Geographical Dis- 

 tribution of Plants. 



