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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE METEOROLOGY OF INDIA AND HIGH ASIA.

I.. TOT I'lItATURE OF THE AIR: 3, THE ISOTHERMAL LINES OF THE SEASONS.

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THERMAL TYPES.

THE YEAR.

Tor (odmaeol l4. of 4r your show mon di-tinetly the influence of the topographical fonts of the Italia, Inmih,ola on t6o increase of the mean temperature: in the southern pun they follow the moaning of to shoes. or

obtain fomts cvidendv in   with then; in the
northern pan three litter are raised to the exert of a difference of fire .kgnts of latitude where they pus over the cent. axis of India At the same time, southern India presents one of these insular regiono of greater loon which are connected with each other by the thennal 000000. tor; the Indian archipelago Sows us arc next of these regions which follows to the can.

THE COOL SEASON.

The coot mama. — This period already shows trans

of the ineto., of temperaturem u the i00   of the Lust
when eanpaml to arromndingw

s; bot, os it u.,100 Ise

expected, the Mama of insulation    comparatively
speaking. but little fah during this reason in the pr.~.inees

at wane di.tunee to the ,,onto of the epos., e   wt

of the southern po   of the sum ln the region, beyond

the tropic th hibn o l inlhttn of continent., region,   tad

to that of the seas, aura depre.io, of tengnmtnre. In ,eference to the Iynjdb, it mont be farther added that o e la., here, comparatively speaking, a grater number of motions for which the nome/ temperature is still power dosthe values repremeoted by the isuheemal lines, . the burr boni to be reduced to the keel of the wo. Th, f twml ekva on of the ground, cod, throughout do

• a sky nmuually clear, en favourable to x000,00.1 notional, may he mentioned . the principal mow. The decrease of temperature with latitude in by tar the moo rapid in the awl season.

When comparing this period sits the following seasons

• are particularly surprised by the unusually great terefiry of te f ryes, whist in many of the morn welkin regions of the copia we tee tant it it more the

• umerical rake of the lin. which is changed 'shun the type of their borna Thee variations have the navre importam., . the territory here represented sat • surf considerably Intl; than might be expected. perhaps.. from II, extort of European empires. The distance from the It.:, of Biscay to the Caspian Sea c.,, bo countered as about oral to the difference in longinde of the bedon of these Maps; whilst Sr of Latitude, referred to European regi.ea, might be compared with the distance from the sonohen, shore. of the Mediterranean to St. l'oenhnogh

THE ACfI-?IN.

dolman (Scptrnhher, (timber, November) is the only

• ut of the tropical wa.ens which doss here • re-

gular form of its w   t

and a very plow decrease of temperature with latitude. it is not Icon characteristic for this sewn, that b, no., regions, pswrnWly in these .long the bank. of the larger even, the drying up of vita surf.. formerly inundated I. the came of most deleterious

o   vapours; but in the P.njfb, and in the hilly
miasmatic along the Brahmapdtnud in Central India, where

these &angeram. modifiesn   .

of the atmphere . no

m be feared, dd. moon frequently approaches the mild and refreshing character of the region of southern Europa

THERM AL 7'1"PI'Ati.

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THE HOT SEASON.

70. «e...,,1 no,:d../ roes ver (March. April, and May: wbieh i. geendly called the hot ., .en, all ,o er baba :dao in it. north -w0osem para, shoos a remarkable Iifli-n0,,r in do. type of the carves when compared to the owl tev..0,: the ingornrr of the topographical form. „f the peninsula has became now oonddrnbly mec apparent. The thermal upon, rnen the western border of the Mop nlrwly at no elevation of 24° of latitude, posses t,rongh coned region of minimum temperature exceeding Osso, sol descends from these direetly to the south, to the very .anthem et d of India. (lot dryness, is combined in th6 period wild the high temperature, nul L. an ',orient element for nutting in differenee from the otter .0000000 still none apparent; but it woi,hl be erronm,o o,

• xpect, at is might appear ratter probable, that in con «gmtwe the heu s felt the heavier by the bunion organim:. Though the central para, comp ire& to the Amer of Ohr ara, show • rapid increase of temperate. with the progress mouds the interi r, I must add Mat, on aceonnt. of the moisten being greater along Oho Sore., non only

beat is felt there more alose out more op,preoi.r, but also its influence on the health. pautieuloly of the Europeans, is decidedly odpl non unfavourable. For the cames and for the interior of India lip to latitude 250 N„ Oho.. monda memo die peeved of the year which indhd,. de highest mea, and rlw, the greatest heu of single day,

THE RAINY SEASON.

The thmi perm/ (Juno, .piny, and August) -u, by the greatest pal of Ind., din rainy ammo; in netting in is oonnetel, particularly in Canal India, with the noon rapid linking of temperature. Nester to the shoomt the difference is fettle. beneficial; the humidity has increased, r , and makes, in the shade at Imo, the heat d,r mom omissive. The power of the i,wnhnia now being broken by a sky :warty peru,atwndy clouded, mom be named .

the particular mere why the beginning of thisti   , m
general is considered u a w,kone prriaf- ForForthe sWe of health, however, it is lea favonrahk; dyspeptic nomp,lainn and keen an particularly frequent in the later pan of this mason. In the Pnojdb, nod partly already in the ,wrth.ww provinm of 'limbo., thin period has no sue the character of It rainy MIAMI. The precipitation .aes the form of nor summer rains with thunder-goring also the amount of precipitation mess rapidly derma. towards dn. ,onh.w.t.

At to ram0 time these protinom, include a region, of maximum for which the man empwramm daring the tree moths exceed 9:', which 'therefore most be considered . one of the Ivry haunt regions of oar globe. For this region alto the non-periodic variations of temperate , the variations between different years, bone he-

• meb goer than we hind thou to be is the more

amnhcn. tropical pan of the territory examined, The thermal equator enters the wet of the Map at the latitude of S_r. and only hares the Indian peninsula neat Ceylon n, an consul,' direction.

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