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very different amounts of average yearly heat in 
situations towards the moor and in those towards 
the sea, besides exhibiting the slight variation of 
temperature in the progress of the seasons in the 
latter kind of locality. These tables are extracted 
from Vancouver, and it should be noted that the 
seasons in the southern coast are said to be even 
milder, and the spring earlier, than on the northern 
coast of the county where one series of observations 
was registered.* 
OAKHAMPTON. ILFRACOMBE. 
Faht. Faht. 
January .... 341°- 53 ° 
February.... 36f- 4&§ 
March.411- 52 
April .43§- 57$ 
May.50f- 621 
June.55§-r 64f 
July. 62 - 651 
August.63f- 66 
September .. 57f- 6 If 
October .... 46f- 621 
November .. 41 - 581 
December.... 39§- 561 
* I cannot help suspecting however, that the atmosphere must 
have been particularly uniform at Ilfracombe in the year 1806; 
the slight thermometric range from 481° to 66° seems too remark¬ 
able to be an ordinary occurrence even on the southern side. I 
have not as yet paid much attention to this kind of registration, 
but in the winter 1838—9 generally allowed to have been par¬ 
ticularly mild, the highest point attained by the quicksilver at 
Yealmpton (which however is certainly much above the sea-level) 
was 56° and this only for one day, Nov. 27th, (south-west gale) 
and though it stood at 53° on January 16th, I am persuaded the 
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