| Science - 1820 - 476 pages
...of Copenhagen ; — at Quebec the summer of Paris and the winter of Petersburg. In China, at Pekin for example, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coasts of Britanny, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous... | |
| William Prout - Chemistry - 1834 - 618 pages
...winter of St. Petersburgh. At Pekin, 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 are as rigorous as at Upsal. So also the same summer temperature prevails at Moscow in the... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 468 pages
...winter of Petersburgh. At Pekin, in China, 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. * If lines be drawn round the globe through all those places which... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 620 pages
...winter of Copenhagen ; at Quebec, the summer of Paiis and the winter of Petersburg. At Pekin, China, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at Upsal. !t appears, according to the observations of Darby, that the mean... | |
| Natural theology - 1836 - 300 pages
...winter of St. Petersburgh. At Pekin, 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 are as rigorous as at Upsal. So also the same summer temperature prevails at Moscow, in the... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1836 - 572 pages
...winter of St. Petersburgh. At Pekin, also, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coastg of Brittany, the scorching heats of 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... | |
| Medicine - 1836 - 686 pages
...winter of St. Petersborg. 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 are as rigorous as at Upsal. So also the same summer temperature prevails at Moscow, in the... | |
| 1838 - 492 pages
...winter of Petersburg ; at Pékin, in China, 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 Upsala." If lines be drawn around the globe, through all those places which... | |
| United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...winter of Petersburg. In China, at Pékin, for example, where the mean 454 General Laws of Climate. 455 temperature of the year is that of the coast of Brittany,...heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters are as rigorous as at Upsal." Connected with this branch of the subject, there are many interesting... | |
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