 | John Knox - Voyages and travels - 1767 - 554 pages
...thermometer, and the winter heat to be twenty divifions fhortof it. Upon this fuppofition then, the medium heat all the year round will be 66°, and this perhaps by night as well as by day, with no great variation : now thofe who have attended to thermometers will readily own, that... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1814 - 584 pages
...authority,' bat am apt to suspect the allowance is fall large. Upon this supposition, therefore, the medium heat all the year round will be 66°; and this perhaps by night as well as by day, with no great variation. Now, those who have attended to thennometrical observation will readily... | |
 | Richard Walter - Voyages around the world - 1853 - 160 pages
...; but I am apt to suspect that the allowance is full large. Upon this supposition then, the medium heat all the year round will be 66°, and this perhaps...of mankind be styled violent and suffocating. But now at Petersburg, though a few times in the year the heat, by the thermometer, may be considerably... | |
 | George baron Anson - 1853 - 660 pages
...allowance is full large. Upon this supposition then, the medium heat all the year round will be 6lil>, and this perhaps by night as well as day, with no...of mankind be styled violent and suffocating. But now at Petersburg, though a few times in the year the heat, by the thermometer, may be considerably... | |
 | Richard Walter, George Anson Baron Anson - Pacific Ocean - 1928 - 572 pages
...; but I am apt to suspect, that the allowance is full large. Upon this supposition then, the medium heat all the year round will be 66°, and this perhaps...length of time would by the generality of mankind be stiled violent and suffocating. But now at Petersburg^ though a few times in the year the heat, by... | |
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... suppose the summer heat at St. Catherine's to be 76°, and the winter heat to be twenty divisions short of it : I do not make use of this last conjecture upon sufficient observation ; but I am apt to suspect that the allowance is full large. Upon... 