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Btruction of the TmS 
commonplace 1 truism. Yet, if we follow for ■» th entrain 
Of thought which this truism J^^tpe to arrive are 
trust, find that the cone usi . 1T , WO rthv of our consideration, 
not altogether unimportant, or 7 study, too 
To my mind our subject P^^^.’^^Tits more salient 
largeUe .more nZ^/e necessarily re- 
ZZed HePce I “ear my further remarks must partake, to 
stneted. Hence £ lea J rather than continuous style, 
some extent, of a fragmentary rat .her ■tnan deludes 
2. The climate of a locality ! mo Xre by which our organs 
all those modifications of ' humidity barometric pres- 
are affected, such as to winds, 
sure, the tranquillity o gaseous’ emanations, its trans- 
its purity or admixture with gaseous ita 
parency, that clearness of sky, J ™V°l om the soil, the 
influence, not only on ripening of fruits, but 
development of organ, c tissues and 1 the npeninf S diff ’ rent 
°4 ,h l ”.71“" . locality, ..do, 
chiefly combine to determine the chaiacter, p y y 
mentally, of its \ n ^. b /|Zresult of conditions dependent upon 
geographical position, varia ion P f day and night, 
14. .“.1. y ... locality, th, 
the incidence of the s A s f m the relation of 
greater or less meridian altitude of Hie sun,^ ^ circum . 
hill and plain, of confcinen depend, the relative 
stances upon which P® rl ° ' hygrometric condition of 
proportion of cloud and sunshine, nygro , tQ the 
the air, the state of its oaone, _!“ on ditions so the phenomena 
particular combination o th a the ’fauna of a locality, 
of life, as presented are determined, 
district, or extensive tra j J the same locality during 
4. Are the conditioM of chnmoe m^ ^ ^ ^ , fc They 
successive seasons all g vear to year, and return 
vary from season to season, defined cyclical periods, 
according to more or less Zttions are cleady traceable to 
Some of these changes an v h to more intangible 
SZJU c ' r ‘“ 
* iTmudy SSS? °L Buchan, p. 170, et seq. 
