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tains, which are covered with wood, and frequently enveloped in 
clouds, and which abound in springs and torrents. Trincomalie 
is at least fifty miles distant from any mountains. The inter- 
vening country is low, and, though wooded, very dry, being 
subject to long continued drought. One of the consequences 
of these peculiarities of situation is, that the difference of tem- 
perature between the two places is very considerable, the mean 
annual temperature of Kandy being about 73 °.5, whilst that of 
Trincomalie is about 10 degrees higher ; and in the summer and 
autumn months, the difference of temperature is from 12 to 15 
degrees. 
On the 15th of last September, the day before I left Kandy 
for Trincomalie, at 8 o’clock in the morning, when the air was 
69°, I ascertained the temperature, both under the tongue and 
in the axilla, of six persons who were to accompany me, — one a 
servant, the other five part of a set of palanqueen bearers, all 
natives of the western coast of the island, all in good health, 
cool, and fasting. 
No. 
Age. 
Temp, under Tonque. 
Temp, in 
1 . 
35 
93° 
96° 
2. 
20 
98 
97 
3. 
40 
99 
97 
4. 
35 
98 
97-5 
5. 
20 
98 
97-5 
6*. 
24 
98 
07 
On the 3d of October, the day after our arrival at Trinco- 
malie, at 9 o’clock in the morning, when the temperature of the 
air was 83°, I repeated my observations on the same men, who 
had not breakfasted, were in good health, and were not fatigued, 
having come the last fourteen miles the day before by water. 
No. 
Temp, under Tonque . 
Temp, in Axilla. 
1 . 
99° 
97° 
2. 
99 
97.25 
3. 
99 
97 
4. 
99.75 
99 
5. 
99.5 
99 
6. 
99.5 
98 
Again, on the 19th of October, the day before we set out on 
our return to Kandy, at half-past 1 1 o’clock in the morning, 
when the temperature of the air was 82°, I renewed my obser- 
vations on the men, who, since the 3d of the month, had been 
leading an idle life at Trincomalie ; they had breakfasted about 
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