Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . .. SSWfc H HEATHS, iC O N ST A N C I A.) sure to meet them at an inner gate of his estate, about a half-milefrom his residence, the main building of which rises from the midst during our stay in the upper regions of the Serra and observed on the level ofMr. Marchs fazenda — gave a mean difference of temperature between the twoplaces of 12° 5. Baron Humboldt estimates the mean decrement of heat withinthe tropics at 1° for every 344 feet of elevation, and considers this ratio as uniformup to the height of 8000 feet, b
Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . .. SSWfc H HEATHS, iC O N ST A N C I A.) sure to meet them at an inner gate of his estate, about a half-milefrom his residence, the main building of which rises from the midst during our stay in the upper regions of the Serra and observed on the level ofMr. Marchs fazenda — gave a mean difference of temperature between the twoplaces of 12° 5. Baron Humboldt estimates the mean decrement of heat withinthe tropics at 1° for every 344 feet of elevation, and considers this ratio as uniformup to the height of 8000 feet, beyond which it is reduced to three-fifths of thatquantity, as far as the elevation of 20,000 feet. It has, however, since been foundthat, in general, the effect of elevation above the level of the sea, in diminishingtemperature, is, in all latitudes, nearly in proportion to the height, the decrementbeing 1° of heat for every 352 feet of altitude: this would give 4400 feet for theelevation of the highest peak of the Organ Mountains above Mr. Marchs fazenda;and, as this is
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