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and the Distribution of Heat over the Globe. 
1 1 Observations from 1774 to 1804, made by Mallet, Pros- 
perin, Holmquist, and Schleling, calculated by M. De Buch, Voy . 
de Norw. ii. 309. It is, perhaps, the place the mean temp, of 
which is the best determined. Winters more serene than at 
Stockholm ; colder on account of the radiation of the ground 
and the air. 
1 2 Thirty-nine years of observations, 1 5 of which are very 
good. Wargentin. Cotte, mean temp, of the year, 44°, 24. 
Five months below 32° as at Petersburg. 
1 5 Four years, A transatlantic climate. 
1 4 Buch, two years. Mean temp, of the winter often scarce- 
ly 31°,1. West coast. 
1 5 Alps of Bavaria. Six years’ observations, calculated by 
M. Wahlenberg. Many fruit trees. Convent of Tegernsee, in 
Bavaria, height of, 2,292 feet ; mean temp, of 1785, 42°.44 ; 
Peyssenberg, 41°. 
1 6 Bugge. Three months below 32°. Under the Equator, 
mean temp, of 44°.6, at an elevation of 18,000 feet. 
17 Dalton. West of England. Climate of islands ; springs 
47°.84. Keswick, Lat. 54° 33', Long. 3° 3* W. ; mean temp, 
48°.02 ; springs, 48°. 56. 
1 8 Kirwan. Scarcely two years’ observations. Southern 
latitude. 
19 Strnadt. Fifteen years. Climate of the continent of Eu- 
rope. 
2 0 Maier, 
2 1 Six years’ observations of M. Escher, calculated by Wah- 
lenberg. The town is situated in a hollow, to which those warm 
winds cannot penetrate, that render the winters more temperate 
in the other parts of Switzerland. 
22 The calculation has been made from six years of excellent 
observations, by Professor Playfair ; during this time the ther- 
mometer was never seen above 75°.74 *. Vegetation continues 
from March 20. to Oct. 20. ; mean temp, of these seven months 
is from 55°, 7b to 50°,90, according as the years are more or less 
fruitful ; wheat does not ripen if the mean temp, descends to 
47°.66. 
* See Edinburgh Transactions , vol, ix. p. 209 . — Ed. 
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