84 M. Humboldt on Isothermal Lines , 
1 Coast of Labrador; Two years of observations. Floating 
ice towards the east. A transatlantic climate. Mean temp, of 
Oct. about 32°. 72 ; Nov. 26°.68. 
2 Centre of Lapland. A European climate. Fine vegetation. 
June, 49°. 46; July, 59°.54; Aug. 55794; Sept. 41774; Oct. 2775; 
Nov. 12788. Inland situation. Specimen of a continental cli- 
mate. 
3 Eleven years of observations, calculated afresh in decads by 
Wahlenberg. Thermometer verified by Saussure. Mean temp, 
of seven months of the year below 02°. Winds blow from Italy 
in the winter. Minimum observed in the winter— 0°. 4; in 
Aug. at noon, in the shade, maximum 54°.5 ; the nights in Aug. 
frequently from 00°. 8 to 2973 ; the mean temp, of Oct. 01°. I re- 
presents that of the whole year ; at the Col de Geant, 10,598 feet 
high, the mean temp, of July is 86°.5. We find 82° to be the 
mean temp, in Europe in 45° of latitude, at 5,400 feet high ; 
at the parallel of the Canaries, at 12,000 feet; in the Andes, un- 
der the Equator, at 16,500 feet. 
4 Buch, Voy. en Norw. ii. 416. Specimen of the climate of 
the islands and coasts in the north of Europe. April, 30.°02 ; 
May, 08°.98; Oct. 82°; Nov. 25°.88. At Alten, Lat. 70°, mean 
temp, of J uly, 68°.5 ; a continental climate. 
5 Finland, eastern coast. May, 40°. 82 ; June, 55°.04 ; July, 
6l°.52 ; Aug. 56°.66 ; Sept. 46°.58 ; Oct. 88°.66 ; Nov. 24°.62. 
Julin and Buch. 
6 Eastern coast of Western Bothnia. Dr Noezen. March, 
28°. 18 ; April, 88°.98 ; Oct. 88°.12 ; Nov. 24°.62. 
7 Euler. Mean temp, of the year, 87°.94. Inochodzow. 
Acta. Petr. xii. 519,-— 588. 
s Two years. Berlin, in the Mem. de I Acad, de Drontheim , 
iv. 216. April, 34734; May, 50°.74 ; Oct. 89°. 2 ; Nov. 27°.68. 
Climate of the west coast of Europe. 
9 Four years. Journal de Phys. xxxix. 40. A continental 
climate. Winter colder, and summer warmer than at Peters- 
burg. Eastern part of Europe ; height as taken from Stritter. 
(Chamouni, Lat. 46° 1' ; Long. 6° 18' E. ; height, 8,168 feet; 
mean temp. 89°.2.) 
1 0 Twelve years. Kirwan. Cotte, mean of the year, 41°.18; 
of the summer, 67°. 46; too high. West coast of Finland a 
