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Fort Thorne | 0.08 | 2.23 | 6.01 | 3.50 | 0.00
Albuquerque | 0.28 | 2.50 | 1.19 | 2.67 | 1.37
Santa Fe | 0.32 | 4.11 | 3.86 | 4.06 | 2.50
Fort Defiance | 1.24 | 3.94 | 5.24 | 3.47 | 0.62
" Yuma | 0.00 | 0.01 | 2.37 | 0.17 | 0.30
San Diego | 0.02 | 0.07 | 1.35 | 0.13 | 0.01
Fort Snelling, Minnesota | 3.31 | 3.92 | 1.75 | 6.35 | 1.23
" Brady | 1.23 | 3.21 | 3.86 | 3.18 | 3.40
" Mackinac | 6.35 | 5.67 | 4.26 | 3.22 | 2.28
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I have not space for all the comment which this exposition is calculated
to induce. The reader will not only find in it an explanation of the
extraordinary character of the summer of 1854, but will see from the
_means_, that it was but an _excessive development_ of an ANNUAL
PHENOMENON,--THE PROGRESS OF A CONCENTRATED COUNTER-TRADE.

It is not necessary to follow with particularity the return transit. It
required no great degree of sagacity to predict, at the time, that the
drought would continue in the vicinity of New York till about the 10th of
September. The return of the belt to that latitude, was not to be expected
before that time, and the drought continued, in fact, until the 9th of
September.

Its return progress was slow, and it was every where behind time. The
autumn was warm, and so, indeed, were December and January, west of the
area of magnetic intensity, although upon, and east of it, there was a
depression in December. The retreating but lingering edge of
counter-trade, with its excess of snow for the season, caught the Iron
Horse, with its train and passengers, upon the prairies of the west, and
laid its embargoing hands upon them. Few, if any, can have forgotten the
thrilling accounts which reached us from that section, of the sufferings
endured by those who were thus embargoed for days and nights, far from the
comfortable habitations of their fellow men.

But the return transit, though slow, was extreme, and February and March
were exceedingly cold for the season. The transit to the north, again, did
not commence as early as usual, and the spring was backward, and the
summer cool. Both were without irregularity, and the season was
productive. The following table exhibits the temperature on a line o