APPENDIX. 
TEMPERATURE OF THE SOIL, 
AS INDICATED BY A SERIES OF OBSERVATIONS AT ALBANY, N. Y., FOR TWENTY MONTHS, 
BEGINNING WITH MAY, 1847, AND ENDING WITH DECEMBER 1848. 
The importance of determining terrestrial temperature is felt more and more as advances 
are made in scientific agriculture and gardening. We have no space here for general observa¬ 
tions on the utility of the subject. 
Albany is in latitude 42 deg. 39 min. The observed mean temperature of the place is 48 
deg. 47 min., at an elevation of 130 feet above tide. The elevation of the place where the 
following observations were made is about 100 feet above tide, in the open space in the rear 
of the old State House, where the morning sun shines early, and continues till the after part 
of the day, when the spot is shaded by the walls upon the west side of the area. 
[Agricultural Rep. Yol. II.—App.] 
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