formed. The point from which the wind blew, was obferved two or three times in every day. Thefe ob- fervations, in the month of January, for in- ftance, through the whole period, amounted to 337. At 73 of thefe, the wind was from the North; 47 from the North- eaft, &c. So that it will be eafy to fee in what proportion each wind ufually prevails in each month: or, taking the whole year, the total of obfervations through the whole period having been 3698, it will be ob- ferved that 6ir of them were from the North, 558 from the North-eaft, &c.
Though by this table it appears we have on an average 47 inches of rain annually.
which is confiderably more than ufiially falls in Europe, yet from the information I have colleftecl, I fuppofe we have a much greater proportion of funlhine here than there. Perhaps it will be found, there are twice as many cloudy days in the middle parts of Europe, as in the United States of America. I mention the middle parts of Europe, becaufe my information does not extend to its Nor- thren or Southern parts.
In an extenfive country, it will of courfe be expelled that the climate is not the fame in all its parts. It is remarkable, that, proceeding on the fame parallel of latitude weftwardly, the climate becomes colder in like manner as when you pro- ceed northwardly. This continues to be the cafe till you attain the fummit of the Alleghaney, which is the higheft land be- tween the ocean and the Miflifipi. From thence, defcending in the fame latitude to the Miflifipi, the change reverfes; and, if we may believe travellers, it becomes warmer there than it is in the fame latiU [ H6 ] tude on the fea fide. Their teftimony is ftrengthened by the vegetables and animals which fubfift and multiply there naturally, and do not on our fea-coaft. Thus Catal- pas grow fpontaneoufly on the Miflifipi, as far as the latitude of 37^, and reeds as far as 38^. Perroquets even winter on the Scioto, in the 39th degree of latitude, in the fummer of 1779, when the thermometer was at 90^ at Monticello, and 96 at WilHamfburgh, it was i lo' at Kaf- kafkia. Perhaps