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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
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re are notwo fncceilive years alike; even the fame fuccefhve feafons andinonths differ from each other every year : and there is, perhaps,but one fteady trait in the charafter of this climate, and that is, icis uniformly variable: the changes of weather are great, andfrequently fuddcn. The range of the quickfilver in Fahrenheit*thermometer, according to Dr. Mitchell, is between the 24th degreebelow, and the locth degree above cypher; and it has been knowato vary fifty degrees in the courfe of twenty-fix hours. Such altera-tions are uch mort confiderable along the coafl: than in tlie interiorand midland parts of the country ; and, wherever they prevail, areaccompanied with proportionate changes in the air, from calms to^winds, and from moifture to drynefs. Storms and hurricanes fome-times happen, which are fo violent as to overfet veflels, demoliflifences, uproot trees, and unroof buildings. Droughts, of fix weeksor two mouths coi;t>nuance, occur aov/ and then. Rain has been- knowis
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION, 6cC, 2S3 Icnown to fall in fiich abundance that the earth, by meafurement,has received fix, five inches on a level, in the (liort fpace of fourhours.* The quantity of water which falls in rain and fnow, oneyear with another, amounts to from twenty-four to thirty-fix inches, fIn the northern parts of this diftrid the fnow falls in larger quanti-ties, lies longer, and the cold is more fteady and intenfe, by manydegrees, than in the fouthern ; hence the climate of the former ismore agreeable in winter, and that of the latter in fummer. Themore weather is generally in the month of July ; but intenfelywarm days are often felt in May, June, Auguft, and September.—Dr. Rittenhoufe fays, that during his refidence in the country, iathe State of Pennfylvania, he never had palfed a fummer withoutdifcovering froft in every month in the year, except July. Thegreateft degree of heat upon record in Philadel;)hia, in 1789, was90. The ftandard temperature of air in Philadelphia i

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  • bookyear:1819
  • bookdecade:1810
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Winterbotham__William__1763_1829
  • booksubject:Zoology
  • bookpublisher:London___J__Ridgway
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:306
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