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Rh {|align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" rules="cols" style="font-size: smaller" daily heat by Fahrenheit's thermometer.
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 * align="center" rowspan="3"| Least & greatest
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The rains of every month, (as of January for instance,) through the whole period of years, were added separately, and an average drawn from them. The coolest and warmest point of the same day in each year of the period were added separately, and an average of the greatest cold and greatest heat of that day was formed. From the averages of every day in the month, a general average for the whole month was formed. The point from which the wind blew was observed two or three times in every day. These observations, in the month of January for instance, through the whole period, amounted to
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