An historical, topographical, and statistical view of the United States of America : from the earliest period to the present time . 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$from 48 to 50°. The inhabitants of New-England, on account ofthe dryneis of their atmofphere, can endure, without inconvenience,a greater degree of heat than the inhabitants of a moift:er climate. Itis fjppofed by fome philoibphers, that the difference of moifturein the atmcfpiiere in Fcnnf) Ivania
An historical, topographical, and statistical view of the United States of America : from the earliest period to the present time . the Southern States, and more fo than in Ca-nada. The extremes of heat and cold, according to Fahrenheitsthermometer, are from 20° below, to 100° above o. The medium i$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 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 lutfcr more from drought than in ciiher of the forementionedrountrics, although they have more tlian double the quantity of evince the remarkable drynefs of the atmofphere in this eaftern.
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