780 



compared by mine, with those of the observa- 

 tory at Paris, that at Vera Cruz, the maximum 

 of heat in thirteen years, had only three times 

 attained 32° cent., and once 35.7°; while we 

 have seen the centesimal thermometer at Parish 

 at 38.4°. 



* See Arago, "on the extreme temperatures observed at 

 Paris, in the Annuaire du Bureau des Long., for 1825, p. 



