The Every-day Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, & Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanack; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion, Volume 2Gale Research Company, 1967 - Days |
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Page 3
... Temperature rises in the day , on an average of twenty years , to 40.286 and falls in the night , in the open country to 31.36 ° -the difference , 8-92 ° , repre- senting the mean ... temperature . The Mean Temperature of the month , it the ...
... Temperature rises in the day , on an average of twenty years , to 40.286 and falls in the night , in the open country to 31.36 ° -the difference , 8-92 ° , repre- senting the mean ... temperature . The Mean Temperature of the month , it the ...
Page 25
... average of these twenty years ' observations gives Mean Temperature ... 36 57 . It is , further , proposed to notice certain astronomical and meteorological pheno- mena ; the migration and singing of birds ; the appearance of insects ...
... average of these twenty years ' observations gives Mean Temperature ... 36 57 . It is , further , proposed to notice certain astronomical and meteorological pheno- mena ; the migration and singing of birds ; the appearance of insects ...
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... Mean Temperature . . . 55 · 57 . May 24 . JACK KETCH AND NEWGATE . On this day , in 1736 , five felons in Newgate were to have been executed ; but the prison was so insecure , that , during the night , one of them " took up a board and ...
... Mean Temperature . . . 55 · 57 . May 24 . JACK KETCH AND NEWGATE . On this day , in 1736 , five felons in Newgate were to have been executed ; but the prison was so insecure , that , during the night , one of them " took up a board and ...
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