. Introduction to the Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. ccxxx I in; '! W ! Climate op North America. 11. CLIMATE OF NORTH AMERICA. nimbUng noifc preceded each earthquake as in Europe i and fhips, at a great from Ihore, kh Aocks a, if they had ftruck upon a rock. The moft ternble earthquake on record in thefe parts was that of ,663. Its greateft violence was in Canada. Many mountains were broken and rent, and, between r^.«^^. and ^»ui^, two mountains were flung fo as , Thefe parts of North Jmerica have their vulcanoes. On the fTea River mountain m the province o( New Hampj
. Introduction to the Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. ccxxx I in; '! W ! Climate op North America. 11. CLIMATE OF NORTH AMERICA. nimbUng noifc preceded each earthquake as in Europe i and fhips, at a great from Ihore, kh Aocks a, if they had ftruck upon a rock. The moft ternble earthquake on record in thefe parts was that of ,663. Its greateft violence was in Canada. Many mountains were broken and rent, and, between r^.«^^. and ^»ui^, two mountains were flung fo as , Thefe parts of North Jmerica have their vulcanoes. On the fTea River mountain m the province o( New Hampjhire. are cinders, calcined matter, and burnt fand. Noifes have been heard at the diftances of fourteen or ^een miles, and, about thirty-five years ago, the noife was uncommonly loud i and at that the fire was feen very diftant. Thefe accounts of 1' ^; 1 '""^'^'^^^ ''^"^' ^"' ^ ""^« ^^^^' but that they are ^^ founded^ As to the ^ofions, which fo often rend the n)cks in North ^menca they are of different nature, and caufed oy the exparafive power of the frofts *. h«ixii^c The thermometer has been known, in Hudfon's-hay, to rife out of doers to 85, on the i2th of July, and to in the month oi January to 4c below the cypher, in aglafs regulated according to Farenhein fcale. It has been obferved by Mr. Hutcbms, that on the 6th of July, 177 r »he quickfilver rofe as high as 99; and once in the fame month, for an hour or two, even to 103. In refpeft to cold, the quickfilver begins to con- geal when It IS funk to about 40 below the cypher; but the fpirit thermo- meter continues to Ihew a degree of cold fo low as 46. The former re marks were made by Mr. fVales, at Prince of Wales'^ fort, in lat rg' cc" correfpondent to the fouthern part of the Orknies. Thofe iOands lie fur' rounded by the fea: Hud/on's-bay has to the weft a traft of continent -x' tending m the narroweft part above thirty-five degrees, covered the whole winter
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