^06 Dr Richardson’s Remarlas on the Climate and'' 
TABLE I. Exhibiting the Mean Temperatures in varioics 
Latitudes. 
Months. 
Mean Temperature of the Air in the Shade. 
Cumberland 
House, 
Lat. 54° 
Long- 1020 
W. 
Near Fort 
Enterprize, 
Lat, 64° 
Long. 113° 6' 
W. 
Winter Island, 
Lat. 66^° 
Long. 
Igloolik, 
Lat. 69^“ 
Long. 
Melville 
Island, 
Lat, 74|° 
N. Long, 
1819—20. 
1820—21. 
18 21— 22. 
1822—23. 
1819—20. 
September, - 
+ 49^20 
+ 34°. 30 
+ 29.06 
+ 2 2°. 45 
+ 22.54 
Ostober, 
+ 36.68 
+ 23.94 
+ 10.21 
+ 10.29 
— 6.96 
November, - 
+ 14.60 
— 0.23 
+ 4.75 
— 23 37 
— 25 60 
December, - 
+ 2.14 
— 29.12 
— 16.94 
— 32.80 
— 26.79 
January, 
— 14.19 
— 15,08 
— 27.96 
— 22,07 
— 35.09 
February, - 
— 1.82 
— 24.80 
— 29.97 
— 25.41 
— 37.19 
March, 
+ 11.09 
— 11.07 
— 15.64 
— 24.75 
— 23.10* 
April, - 
+ 33.97 
4- 5.11 
'+ 2.51 
— 4.68 
— 11.87 
May, 
+ 49.05 
+ 32.11 
+ 21.09 
-f 22.85 
4- 14.16 
June, - 
+ 59.88 
+ 46,62 
+ 31.97 
+ 30.16 
+ 34.24 
July, - - 
+ 69.80 
+ 53.20 
+ 36.34 
+ 40.04 
+ 42.41 
August, - - 
+ 73.73 
+ 55.36 
+ 36.68 
H- 33.68 
+ 32,68 
Annual Means, 
+ 32.01 
+ 14.19 
+ 6.84 
+ 2.20 
— 1.71. 
Remarks upon Table I. 
The temperatures for Lats, 54° and 64°5 were deduced from^ 
Captain Franklin’s observations ; those in the three remaining, 
columns are copied from Captain Parry’s journals, with the mo- 
difications noticed below. 
Cumberland Flouse is situated in Lat. 53° 5T N., Long. 102° 
17' W., in a flat limestone country, covered with wood, and 
abounding in swamps and lakes. The month of September was- 
occLipied in travelling from Lat. 57° to 54°, for which an allow- 
ance has been made in the table at the rate of 1°.8 of tempera- 
ture for each degree of latitude, by which the place of observa-, 
tion exceeded 54° ; and the same addition was made to the re- 
corded temperatures for June, July, and August 1820, during; 
which months we travelled from Cumberland House to Lat.-. 
64^° N. The allowance of 1°.8 here used, is greater than that, 
which Humboldt specifies for the same parallel of latitude ; but. 
