 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 pages
...Europe as far as 50° or 52° N. latitude. In comparing the two systems of climates, we find at New York the summer of Rome and the winter of Copenhagen; at Quebec, the summer of Pails and the winter of Petersburg. At Pekin,. China, the scorching heats of summer are greater than... | |
 | Lorin Blodget - 1857 - 588 pages
...systems of climates—the concave and convex summits of tlio same isothermal lines,—we find at New York the summer of Rome, and the winter of Copenhagen, at Quebec the summer of Paris and the winter of St. Petersburg. At Pekin, also, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coasts of Brittany,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...America and Asia, has an ' insular ' climate. The northern part of China, and the Atlantic region of the United States, exhibit ' excessive climates.' We find...Rome and the winter of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the 0> bb ' ^~-l. 7 i • » Ji'-s •' r;j*Vfcv/ rb^HfeM^^i summer of Paris and the winter of Petersburg.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 712 pages
...America and Asia, has an ' insular ' climate. The northern part of China, and the Atlantic region of the United States, exhibit ' excessive climates.' We find at New York, says Humboldt, the summer of Borne and the winter of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the summer of Paris and the winter of Petersburg. At... | |
 | 1836 - 704 pages
...systems of climates, the concave and the convex summits of the same Isothermal lines, we find at New York the summer of Rome and the winter of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the summer of Oaris and the winter of St. Petersburg. At Pekin, also, where the mean temperature of the year is that... | |
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Isothermal lines, we find at New York the summer of Rome and the winter of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the summer of Paris and the winter of St. Petersburgh. At Pekin, also, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coasts of Brittany, the scorching... 
