CATALOGUE.— METEOROLOGY, CLIMATE.
453
Whitehurst. I’ll. tr. 1707- 265.
Apr. 18 , at J past 9, p. m.— 1 ° F.
Bevis and Short, l’h. tr. 1708. 54, 55.
Byres. Ph. tr. 1708. 330.
At Rome, 99°.
Watson. Ph. tr. 1771.213.
Wilson. Ph. tr. 1771.320.
Van S\vinden. Ph. tr. 1773. 89.
De Cain. S. E 1773. 541.
On the cold in Canada front the N. W. winds.
Barker. Ph. tr. 1775. 202.
Allahabad . The heat often I09° in theshade, once ill 0 .
Roebuck on the heat of London and Edin burgh . Ph. tr. 1775. 459.
Boz. IV. 82.
A heat of 34^ R. or 109° F. was fatal to more than leooopersons at Pekin.
Brisson and Dulue. A. P. 1777. 522.
The cellar or well of the obseivatory varied from Op tolOp R. or irom 53 0 to 35p F.
Wilson on cold at Glasgow '. Ph. tr. 1780.
451.
Blagden. Ph. tr. 1781.
The mean temperature in Jamaica is about 81°.
Culliun on a hard frost 23 June 1783. I’ll. tr.1784. 41(i.
Cassini. A. P. 1786. 507- Roz. XXXV. 140.Cassini on the greatest heat at Paris . M.Inst. IV. 338.
In 1701 , 104° F.
Hunter. Ph. tr. 1788. 53.
Found the springs at Kingston in Jamaica , about so 0 ;after a gentle ascent of two miles “9°; cold spring, nearly1400 yards above the sea, was 6 ip; the variation is 1 ° for930 feet.The extremes at Kingston were 09 and 91 0 itheusualheight in the cold season from 7 o' to 77 °, in the hot from15° to 90". At Brighthelmstone the heat of a well was so 0 ,at Bromley, in November 4g£ , and the mean between theheat in London , at sunrise and at 2 o'clock, is about 49 °. 2 .Kirwan gives 52° for the mean heat of London . The well*at New York vary from 54 ° to 50°.
Ileberden’s table of ihe mean heat from 1763to 1772. l’h. tr. 1788. 66.
P. Wilson on cold attending a hoar frost.Ed. tr. I. 146.
Pingre on some severe winters. A. P. 1789.514.
Philotattee. Asiatic Mirror. Mag. 1789.
An account of the heat at Cawnpore , from 7 th April t#Oth May 1789 . For 21 days from 14th April to Oth May,the mean heat without doors at 2 , p. m. was 127°, thegreatest heat, isth April, 144°; the mean heat at night 93 °:behind a tattee, or wet mat, the mean heat, at 2 , was 79 ",48 1 lower than in the open air.
*CoUe’s table of temperatures. Roz-XXXIX. 27.
Agrees in general with Kiiwan. Cotte makes the meantemperature ofl’aris 9 / R. or 53°.4 F.
Cotte on some severe winters. Journ. I’liys.XLV1U.270.
Toaldo on the temperatures of 50 places.Roz. XXXIX 43.
Toaldo on some sudden heats. Soe. Ital. VE85.
A copious table of temperatures by Heinsius .Erxleb. §. 761.
From Winkler’s physik.
Rum ford on the saltncss of the sea. Ess. IT.vi.
Munch. M. IV. 601.
The sea varies at Liverpool from 30° to 08°.
Messier on the heat of 1793. Ann. Ch.XVill. 310.
Messier on the heat at Paris . M. Inst. IV.501.
Munch. M. IV.
The thermometer at Kendal is about 47° at a mean.Kirwan's rules give 4 8j°.
Ph. M. X. 172.
The mean temperature at Columbo it 79°.5, the utmostvariation 13°.
The mean of the greatest cold and heat at Paris is 54°. 5 .Laland mentions a heat ot 113 ° in Senegal . In the sum-mers of 1733 , 1703, and 179S, it was 104° in France .