Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-19
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an, ooun,rios Of tho world
Tbibe, si,ua,ed In ceu,ral A. sin beiweep
,hir,,otb and tbirtv.eigbtb narallels of
north latitude ia n decidedly hot countrv
so hot indeed that even the tiercest heat
which the firemen in a ea-poInp steamer
have TO endure is comparatively insigniti-
cant beside it's midsummer temperature.
"Msery loves company" and as the read
er sits slowly melting with thermometer al
9S Fah., he viii probably gather consola-
tion from the knowledge that the unfortu-
nate inhabitants of the above mentioned
country are worse off than himself. The
intense heat, reaching 1902, doubtless pre-
vents their remaining either in their hous-
es or their garments during the day, but
such 10 the Inconsistency of the weather that
if they venture to remain out doors or to
continue in their primitive costume
throughout the night, they may possibly
be frozen to death before morning.
Senegal in Africa and the island of fGaud-
eloupe in the West Indeis are next TO Thi-
bet in summer heat; the weather is varia-
bic, but often reaches temperature OF
l30 deg. Still more changeable is the eli
mate of the Great Desert of Sahara, where
the thermometer, after rising TO 100 deg.
during the day, at nightiall descends to
among the fifties. In Persia, fearful plaques
and pestilences are bred by an atmosphere
heated TO l25 deg. At Calcutta and on the
Delta of the Oranges, points fro m which
the Asiatic cholera is said to begin its W rest
ern march. the mercury rises to 100 deg.
while in Central America the same limit is
attained
Tn tbe iungles of AGobanistan and in the
deserts of Eovpt. 40 deg is The maximum.
S,,anoo to sov the eome bigb temneratnre
is reached in some of the interior valleys
of California. although the average of the
surrounding country is much lower. AT
Cane Colony. the diamond dicgipps in AT
rica and in some narts of Utah Territory.
the midsummer heat il los deg. This is
nex, orootest in Groece reaching 104 dog.
tber comes Arabia 1O3 deg the arid des-
orls Of that country being much less heat
od Than tbe vast exnanse of Sahara. Now
follows n strange anomaly: il will hardly
no credited that our blue nosed neirbbors
IL Canada ,,or oxnor;aroo srcb n ,emnero.
ture I'm, II 10 nevertbeless n fact that at
NortrooI ,ho ox,reme summer beat 10 or-
,ep no biob as that of tbe deserts or Arabia
both bo;no ina dor
a., o,,,, c,o,a Now yorLis mn, far
boh;pd It's summer limit being 100 deg.
SIT, Ir,nar In5Io Can,o, china The Ia
Iard nr Jamo;ca and mos, Of opr Southern
states averaoe 100 deg. with the excep-
lion of Now York es deg IL the highest
ronco in tbe Northern States. The island
of Mauritius is next ON the list, having
summer temperature of 96 deg then com,
Sierra Leone in Africa and Guiana in Soutl
America botb o. der . then Ceylon. 90 deg
Tbrouobout France in st. Petersburs
lprss;aN Denmork Relo;um Rurmah
Sharoho; in china Penang tbe Sandwich
Islands Ruenos Ayres and the islands o
porrhon and Trinidad tbe overace is o.
doc That of Nova Scotia and the maiorit,
Of ,bo Azoras islands is 81 deg. England
ireland Sicily Siam. and Peru in summer
oro Of about tho s.me temneroturo NOT O. Y
cooding az der pokin in China. Portugal
and Natal Colony in Africa all have milo
summers so deg. being the extreme. Ir
Siberia. II deg. is the limit. In Western
and Southern Australia and the eastern
and western parts of Scotland, the tenn
perature does not rise above 10 deg. In
italy, Venezuela, and Madeira, 70 deg. is
the maximum.
The thermometer in Prussia, Victoria
Land, and New Zealand rarely rises above
70 deg; in New South Wales not above 6s
deg, nor, in Switzerland and Hungary,