Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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... temperate climate , and to explain the causes of the difference between them , -causes which are by no means of so simple a nature as are usually imagined . The three great divisions of the earth - the tropical , the temperate , and the ...
... temperate climate , and to explain the causes of the difference between them , -causes which are by no means of so simple a nature as are usually imagined . The three great divisions of the earth - the tropical , the temperate , and the ...
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... temperate zone we may take all countries situated between 35 ° and 60 ° of lati- tude , which in Europe will include every place between Christiana and Algiers , the districts further south form- ing a transitional belt in which temperate ...
... temperate zone we may take all countries situated between 35 ° and 60 ° of lati- tude , which in Europe will include every place between Christiana and Algiers , the districts further south form- ing a transitional belt in which temperate ...
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... temperate and tropical zones , in the direct heating effect of the sun's rays independently of altitude . In England the noonday sun in the month of June rarely incon- veniences us or produces any burning of the skin ; while in the ...
... temperate and tropical zones , in the direct heating effect of the sun's rays independently of altitude . In England the noonday sun in the month of June rarely incon- veniences us or produces any burning of the skin ; while in the ...
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... temperate zones , on the other hand , the stratum of uniform earth - temperature lies very deep . At Geneva it is not less than from thirty to forty feet , and with us it is probably fifty or sixty feet , and the temperature found there ...
... temperate zones , on the other hand , the stratum of uniform earth - temperature lies very deep . At Geneva it is not less than from thirty to forty feet , and with us it is probably fifty or sixty feet , and the temperature found there ...
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... temperate zone . It is this large quantity of vapour in the equatorial atmosphere that keeps up a genial warmth throughout the night by preventing the radiation into space of the heat absorbed by the surface soil during the day . That ...
... temperate zone . It is this large quantity of vapour in the equatorial atmosphere that keeps up a genial warmth throughout the night by preventing the radiation into space of the heat absorbed by the surface soil during the day . That ...
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