Outlines of the First Course of Yale Agricultural Lectures
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The mean daily tempei-ature at Philadelphia had been found to be one degree above the temperature at 9 A. M. The average annual temperature of the atmosphere diminishes from the equator towards the poles. 136 YALE AGRICULTURAL LECTURES. But the temperature is not the same for places in the same lat- itude in tlie two hemispheres, as is seen in the following table : PLACES. I.AT. TEMP. PLACES. LAT. TEMP. Falkland Isles, 51" S 47° 23 London, 51° 31' N 50° -72 Buenos Ayres, 34° 36' S 62^ G Savanna...h, 32° 05' N 64° -58 Rio Janeiro, 22=- 5G' S 73° 96 Calcutta, 22° 35' N 78° -44 This variation is owing to a variety of local causes, such as the elevation and form of the land, proximity to large bodies of water, the general direction of winds, etc. The temperature of the air diminishes with the altitude. As a general rule, it may be stated that there is a diminution in temperature of 1° F, for every 343 feet of elevation. On ris- ing from near the level of the sea, the rate of decrease is more rapid ; after a certain height is reached it proceeds more slowly ; but in very elevated regions it again increases.
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