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Daily tides;—At Nice also, although the hours of observation were unfavourable, 
the daily oscillations, with two maxima and two minima, for convenience called at¬ 
mospheric tides, were discoverable. The Genoa records show the same in every 
month. 
,,^ 1 ‘ r !:~^* easureraents °f rainfall were nut made by Mons. TeyBsierc in 1853, but 
Wilkins in his book says the fall in winter is 3 to 7 in., spring 3 to 8 in., 
uimer 2 to 7 in., and autumn 6 to 18 in., and the mean fall for the year 24 in.; 
* ajunmoi in any one year 41 in., and a minimum 15 in. In 1853, in I486 ob- 
viranons, rain fell 1GG times, the maxima being 32 times iu May and 27 times in 
'«'iber; the sky was clear 930 times, overcast 309 times only, haze 14, fogs 3, 
13 5 ^ un( ler, hail, or snow 26 times. 
The most remarkable feature is the paucity of the winds from southerly 
-Wip* l n 1390 observations it blew from the south only 31 times, S.E. 57, 
a frt,' i 139, N.W. 168, so that northerly points give 508 winds, 
t ^yiutholy only 257. The east wind blew 124 times, and the west only 66 
£' Observations were not made for electricity. 
1 fereu. a0 ?)| e ysis shows that the meteorology of Nice and Genoa, and by 
; °* ^! e “Maritime Alps, presents some features common to a tropical 
K W i ern { eom P a rativeIy equable pressure, aud limited range of atmospheric pressure, 
■ annnui l ' m P l ' ratui ' e . and small range of the thermometer whether daily, monthly, 
winw' 00 exc , e!iS °f I 10 * 1 in the summer, no great depression of temperature in 
uncoU( ^ e( l g ky for weeks together; violent winds and tempests rare, 
-dure ■ ther* atm °®Ph®re being a characteristic, aud added to all this, perennial 
c.-hly Con T • w ? uld tbns appear to be a combination of physical circumstances 
.livtCr . lD the P eD Ple to freedom from formidable diseases, and more espe- 
lV>* [| lnt , U| 'S the respiratory organs; nevertheless the official medical returns 
toy other cane ea , from the diseases of these organs far exceed the deaths from 
,Q from aimif’ ,l ) 0t CSS at ^‘ ce H lan at Geneva ftI1 j Turin, and exceed the propor- 
ar diseases of the respiratory organs in Eondon. 
it JJl * teteorolo 9y °fthe Albion Mines, Nova Scotia. By H. Poom- 
,tl ' 1 NnrmT Q, '. e 6ilUated ‘0 the county of I’ictou and province of Nova 
^-rnwich. Th„. WlCtt ' lat. 45° 34' 30" north, and long. 62 ° 42 west from 
-"itliclv 4 tJ£W are upon the western side of the East river, which Hows m a 
lr into the h«i 0n fr .° m itB MUW in the. St. Mary's mountains until it empties 
‘- a,c ' J n(iuent nr°\T ha, ' boul ‘ of Pictou, which is ono of the most eastern harbours 
If* sea i s !i' / ‘^ orth America, and opening into the Golf of St. Lawrence, 
not mor« a ab ° Ut ten ,,lllcs - with some rising land intervening, but pio- 
250 feet hi S h * The ground rises moderately on aU aides 
ah *o bran£ 6XC ?P; 111 the direction of the river, which at this point spreads 
,, <u 'fiicc of S' Qlld fu, m9 an interval of rich soil of about half a node in breadth. 
J nr small siS * ttrroun dinff country is very undulating, being Intersected >y 
t, ‘ «oii i n tl -"WM (often dry in summer) running in every direction. 
J’ 1 “pop L '“ ediate v,cinit y of the mines i« of a loamy clay, * * “ 
i. Iq *t a Benp rai | Ilt,U,i s ^ alt;9 tying below, and which dip i» » aor |^" A 
ni, >tiug wi ,h Sfr»l angle nf 19°. several thick seams of coal it below and 
:^' Ur ^ <-TtipBai5 , sllale5 ! "’bile the limestone formation underlying tie coal 
l aical n,ile to the south-west of the mines, and g^J***- 
1‘ave | '' , 0n of c °nical lulls to the surface of the country- Pines and 
-1 ‘"tCTrui^d r t lD P reva,l >ng forest trees upon the uplands, w»th buch an 
ami f T S °! nc 1,arta ; whill> 1***“ hemlocks have marked the hues of 
: i,f id a* hJdi,! W e ms have grown upon the interval between the foiksot 
tin- couni } Q,ly ot *be clearances extend one mile back from the Jan 
cli m “?_ ry f “^ a y b e eousit'eftd as almost in its primeval torest state a 
of U i B country. , , , ' 
*<ght hoi?? 4S , ' M ' 30‘» north, we enjoy the tun's influence w the shortest 
^7 minut^ f ° rty minutes » and in the longest days during fifteen hours 
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