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Title: An historical, topographical, and statistical view of the United States of America : from the earliest period to the present time
Year: 1819 (1810s)
Authors: Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: London : J. Ridgway
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the Southern States, and more fo than in Ca-nada. The extremes of heat and cold, according to Fahrenheitsthermometer, are from 20° below, to 100° above o. The medium i$from 48 to 50°. The inhabitants of New-England, on account ofthe dryneis of their atmofphere, can endure, without inconvenience,a greater degree of heat than the inhabitants of a moift:er climate. Itis fjppofed by fome philoibphers, that the difference of moifturein the atmcfpiiere in Fcnnf) Ivania and New-England is fuch, as thata perfon mi^lit bear at Icait ten degrees of heat more in the latterthan in the former. TiVe quantity of rr.in which falls in England annually, is computedto be twsnty-four inches; in France eighteen inches, and in New-England from forty-eight to tifty inches; and yet in New-Englandtb.cy lutfcr more from drought than in ciiher of the forementionedrountrics, although they have more tlian double the quantity of rain.Tlitfe-tV.ifts evince the remarkable drynefs of the atmofphere in this eaftern
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