| Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pages
...winter of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the summer of Paris and the winter of Petersburg. At Pekin, in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coasts of Brittany, the scorching heals of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsala.t If lines be drawn... | |
| 1838 - 492 pages
...of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the summer of Paris, and the winter of Petersburg ; at Pékin, in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of...greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsala." If lines be drawn around the globe, through all those places which have the same winter temperature,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 506 pages
...winter of Copenhagen; at Quebec, the summer of Paris and the winter of Petersburg. At Pekin, in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of...greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsala.* If lines be drawn round the globe through all those places which have the same winter temperature,... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 486 pages
...winter of Copenhagen; at Quebec, the summer of Paris and the winter of Petersburg. At Pekin, in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of...greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsala.* If lines be drawn round the globe through all those places which have the same winter temperature,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 494 pages
...winter of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the summer of Paris and the winter of Petersburg. At Pékin, in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of...greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsala.* If lines be drawn round the globe through all those places which have the same winter temperature,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1842 - 534 pages
...winter of Copenhagen; at Quebec, the summer of Paris and the winter of Petersburg. At Pekin, in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of...greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsala.* If lines be drawn round the globe through all those places which have the same winter temperature,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1842 - 494 pages
...winter of Copenhagen; at Quebec, the summer of Paris and the winter of Petersburg. At Pekin, in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of...greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsala.* If lines be drawn round the globe through all those places which have the same winter temperature,... | |
| Graham Hutchison - 1843 - 684 pages
...Paris, and the winter of St Petersburgh. At Pekin, also, where the mean temperature of the year is tbat of the coasts of Brittany, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters area» rigorous as at Upsal. So also, the same summs temperature prevails at Moscow in the centre of... | |
| 1845 - 478 pages
...Petersburgh. In China, at Pekin, for example, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coast of Brittany, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters are as rigorous as at Upsal." The difference of climate between western Europe and eastern North America,... | |
| 1836 - 634 pages
...Rome and the winter of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the summer of Oaris and the winter of St. Petersburg. At Pékin, also, where the mean temperature of the...summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters are as rigorous as at Upsal. So also the same summer temperature prevails at Moscow, in the centre... | |
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