 | Lorin Blodget - 1857 - 602 pages
...Rome, and the winter of Copenhagen, at Quebec the summer of Paris and the winter of St. Petersburg. At Pékin, also, where the mean temperature of the...at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsal. So also the same summer temperature prevails at Moscow in the centre of Russia as towards the mouth... | |
 | LORIN BLODGET, - 1857 - 544 pages
...Rome, and the winter of Copenhagen, at Quebec the summer of Paris and the winter of St. Petersburg. At Pékin, also, where the mean temperature of the...at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsal. So also the same summer temperature prevails at Moscow in the centre of Russia as towards the mouth... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...and travelling is performed in sledges, frequently on the ice of the St. Lawrence. At Pekin in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of...at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsal. These violent contrasts render such climates trying to the constitution of a western European, unused... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1860 - 592 pages
...Its climate is one of extremes. At Pekin, 1° farther S. than Naples, the mean temperature is that of Brittany. The scorching heats of summer are greater...at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at UpsaL In so vast a territory, there must, necessarily, be many variations. The W. districts are much influenced... | |
 | James Brown - 1861 - 722 pages
...and travelling is performed in sledges, frequently on the ice of the St Lawrence. At Pekin, in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of...at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsal." 51. But, apart from all such mere deductions as regards the mildness of our climate, we have the more... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1862 - 584 pages
...farther S. than Naples, the mean temperature is that of Brittany. The scorching heats of summer arc greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsal. In so vast a territory, there must, 'necessarily, be many variations. The W. districts are much influenced... | |
 | George William Fitch, Alphonso J. Robinson - 1864 - 276 pages
...Petersburg, during which the snow lies from three to five feet deep for several months. At Pekin, in China, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsal. 516. The following table gives the difference in the mean temperature of the coldest and warmest months... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1865 - 880 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...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,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1866 - 634 pages
...while at 1'ekin. which is nearly 1° farther S. than Naples, the mean temperature is that of lirituiny, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as in the northern provinces of Sweden. But in so extensive a territory there are necessarily many variations.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1873 - 732 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 those of Upsala. Mean annual isothermal lines.—If lines be drawn round the globe through all those... | |
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At Pékin, also, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coasts of Brittany, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsal, 
