lea) may produce'to us some northerly winds 
, n Sii^laiia it should not be so, for England in' 
dependent of bemgfurther north, is not, as we 
f‘' e \ on or side where the polar open- 
V 8 '. 1S most nearest the equator; hence 
duivng- most of August and September, the sun 
inust slime m very forcibly over the lower side 
. north polar opening, (which is on the 
American side) nearly perpendicularly under 
the , , of the English, at which time the high- 
f 1 s ' l0 ’ilder or side of tlie* polar opening, which 
£ somewhat.east of north from England, must 
* . t0 shut 11 m!t from shining equally forcible 
unaer us, who are 12 or 16 degrees more soufn 
fl'T UX l d > lf . ,l0t aLso u,uIt r die same paral- 
r ‘ u t . atltu de, with England, throughout Amer- 
, 7 irow } sea tPsea; hence in England August is 
iK^rerthe temperature of July, than it is here; 
-..ccmimg to these arguments, the nights of Au¬ 
gust should be warmer in England than their 
nights in July; by the same rule April should 
i ’, n lC;1 n ; U1 ' C! ’ die temperature of May in Em* 
land (nan it is her& ' ° 
* H a P 3 a P v °gtessive melting aw ay or swerv¬ 
ing ot tiie verge of the poia^ opening, so as to 
cause one side to be lowest at one period, and 
unotiicr at a succeeding period of several centu 
nes, may be the cause of the variation of cl: 
mate, winch all countries north of the tropics 
undergo; m the former case the sphere must be 
geUmg shorter fiom pole to pole.] 
. 0 msuleru.g the form of the earth, as stated 
in mv theory of open poles, and considering the 
relative position of the sun at anv given time, it 
rnay lie perceived that June and '.July should be 
huger here relatively to the other seasons, than 
an England; no!, only because die lower side of 
the north .polar opening, near Hudson’s Hay is 
theii drawing or suukmg the S. W.-wind over us. 
but uecause the sunshine must then strike more 
perpendicularly under our feet than it. does un¬ 
de. England, wiua'e it must at such time shine 
With great obliquity. 
Ihoic aie circumstances winch seem to indi¬ 
cate that tliere is s'dl some iiidden reason wide, i 
operates m the production of the comparative 
cool Spell of vug 1 st, besides those alluded to: 
the circumstances are (he.se; the meteorological 
jour/,a.s of England for 1813, 1814 and 1816 
bwn: all that I have seen, show that such coo! 
speh, or at least die acme thereof, is observable 
m Eng.and as veil as here; it appears to me from 
tne meteorological journals that ! have examin¬ 
ee. that about an equal number of days before, 
t e vernal equinox, we often have the acme of a 
warm period, somewhat similar as to occurrence 
pame.y somewhere between the 14th and last of 
Xeurua.y. YVnet her these circumstances are 
owing- to a sphere or ring of water, or a sphere 
or ring of solids, iir ervening between us and the 
sun,* or not, l requ/re further time to consider; 
l can however, now say, there are strong rea- 
son " * >e we 'ghed in favor of such an idea. If 
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