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The world: (1848)

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 157

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ica and Western Europe. A simple inspectionof this map will give a clearer idea of the variation of isother-mal lines from the parallels of latitude. Thus, for instance, themean annual heat 8t the North Cape, is 32°; whilst Nain on thecoast of Labrador, 14° south of the North Cape, has a mean… … « 5 l1 as p CLIMATE. l0J much affects the climate, and as a general rule the western sidesof continents and largo islands, arc warmer than the eastern. Cer-tain portions of the globe, which from their nearness to the equa-tor would bo extremely warm, are rendered tolerably cool by theirelevated…

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