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The world: (1848)

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 129

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s of air distribute theirwarmth throughout the great body of the atmosphere, and-some-times in the form of winds sweeping over colder regions of theearth, moderate the rigor of the climate. Ascending from the earth we find the temperature of the airconstantly diminishes until we arrive at a region… … B 0 80° C perpetual congelation at the equator, and B C, for the line of latitudes, then the decrease in the height of the term of congelationfrom the equator to the poles, ma}r be represented by the severalparallels bounded by the curved line A C. The region of per-petual frost at the equator is…

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