1S370 The Valley of Nepaul. 455 



Table of Mean Annual Temperature by Fahrenheit's Thermometer. 





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Paris 



Mean annual 

 temperature. 



62° 



58 o 



62° 



60° 



59° 



50° 



57° 



55° 



Course of the Seasons, with some of their more prominent distinguishing 



features. 



The general characters of the seasons in this valley are, from its 

 geographical situation, a good deal influenced by those of the neigh- 

 bouring plains, but its elevation above them and its mountainous con- 

 fines modify here the truly tropical character of the Tirhoot and 

 Behar seasons to a close affinity with the seasons of the temperate 

 zone., Cathmandu is situated in the 28th degree of N. latitude, and 

 has an elevation of about 4,800 feet above the sea ; but as it is ad- 

 mitted by competent authority,* that 600 feet of elevation is equiva- 

 lent to one degree of latitude, in affecting the temperature of the air 

 and climate of a country, it is necessary in fixing the latitude, to 

 estimate it at 36 degrees, as the parallel line, on other parts of the 

 earth, with the climates of which that of Cathmandu should corres- 

 pond. A comparison with those of Malte Brun's "European Sec- 

 tions of Climates," which occupy the line of lat. 36, corroborates 

 this doctrine in so far as the average temperature is concerned, and 

 also in some respects as regards vegetation. 



Section 15 in lat. 35.43, includes the peninsulas and islands of 

 Greece, as well as Crete and much of the Mediterranean. Section 16 

 in lat. 36.44^ includes " the state of Genoa, Tuscany, the states of the 

 Pope, Naples, Malta and Corsica." Section 17 in lat- 3G.43 T i- includes 

 Spain and Portugal. In the first of these we have Palermo,! averag- 



* Decandolle, and so far as memory serves me, by Humboldt. 

 * Palermo is in lat 38 o, although included in one of these sections of European Climates. 



