ar. Min. 32 -7 -1 13 16 28 31 39 24 37
Max. 60 51 54 70 72 70 76 87 60 65
Apr. Min. 32 18 24 33 40 36 38 54 26 44
Max. 70 62 74 78 62 73 83 93 69 74
May. Min. 32 32 81 44 47 50 45 64 33 52
Max. 75 79 83 84 72 85 88 97 78 80
June. Min. 45 41 38 57 57 59 59 73 39 60
Max. 95 86 90 89 79 92 95 105 80 88
July. Min. 40 39 45 62 64 64 50 73 41 64
Max. 95 84 90 95 86 94 96 102 83 91
Aug. Min. 44 49 46 60 62 63 66 72 42 62
Max. 95 84 85 91 87 93 96 104 79 91
Sept. Min. 43 40 33 51 56 51 51 70 34 55
Max. 88 75 78 87 83 88 88 99 75 85
Oct. Min. 50 27 24 82 42 33 38 41 30 46
Max. 66 70 72 73 69 77 80 91 68 77
Nov. Min. 32 15 4 26 36 28 27 30 22 39
Max. 58 58 60 64 63 66 69 82 56 67
Dec. Min. 32 -7 -4 15 20 17 14 36 20 31
Max. 55 42 53 62 56 61 64 79 53 60

This excess of magnetic intensity and electricity not only gives a
peculiar character to our vegetation, but also to our race, our animals,
and every thing. He who supposes that the restless activity and energy of
the people of the United States is the result of habit, or education, or
any fortuitous circumstances alone, is mistaken. Let him watch the
contrast in his own feelings during those occasional languid, damp, and
sultry, although not thermometrically, hot days--which so much resemble
the summer weather of England--with those days of bright, bracing, N. W.
and S. W. air, so much more frequent here, and he will appreciate the
difference. That term "bracing," so much in use, will express the effect
of this peculiar weather. It "girds up the loins," both of body and mind.
Men and animals can work with more ease, even in our peculiar extremes of
heat, than they can in England, and fatten with less.

A similar difference in degree is found between our climate and that of
the Pacific portion of our country. Something is due to the difference in
the volume and moisture of the counter-trades, and something to the
contiguity of the Pacific Ocean; but to the differenc