Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . arter, water, green snakes, and vipers. Climate.—The climate of the District of Columbia is gen-erally salubrious, though subject to sudden ciianges, particu-larly in spring The means for a series of years, compiledat the office of the Chief Signal Officer (Reports for thebenefit of commerce), indicate these general conditions of theatmosphere: Mean temperature, minimum, 7° to 9° Fah-renheit, maximum, 95° to 102°.5 ; mean Barometer, min., to
Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . arter, water, green snakes, and vipers. Climate.—The climate of the District of Columbia is gen-erally salubrious, though subject to sudden ciianges, particu-larly in spring The means for a series of years, compiledat the office of the Chief Signal Officer (Reports for thebenefit of commerce), indicate these general conditions of theatmosphere: Mean temperature, minimum, 7° to 9° Fah-renheit, maximum, 95° to 102°.5 ; mean Barometer, min., to inches, max., to ; Rain Fall, max., inches to in.; Prevailing winds, northwest. Thehottest months are July and August, and the coldest De-cember and February. Sleighing is rare. In summer storms,attended with excessive lightning and thunder, are the winter of 1874-5 navigation on the Potomac wasentirely suspended for several weeks on account of the ice. thei ^ -^^^f^;^r^^^e appearance ol ~^ a V ^^itheatre,lii the centre of which stands the city. aiean altitude of the city Is about 40 ft. above the or-. HLLeaueu win. c^v.^...^.. ^ en^il^.?v^«^*^? ^/ i^/^^ navigation on the Potoi; ^^ entirely suspended for several weeks on account of ti. / SECTION II. DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY.
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