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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 82 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 42 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 30 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 8 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 4 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Heat and cold in the United States. (search)
are very full and complete. It appears therefrom that the greatest thermometrical range at any of the military posts is 147 degrees, this being at Fort Ripley, Minnesota; at Fort Kent, in Maine, it is 137 degrees. The greatest degree of cold at the former post is 50 below zero, and at the latter 37 below zero. In not far from the same latitude, in the region of the lakes and at a similar altitude, at Forts Brady and Howard, in Michigan, the range is scarcely less. At Fort Wilkins, on Lake Superior, which is almost surrounded by water, the degree of cold is only 9 below zero. In Washington Territory, at Fort Stelacoom, in the same latitude, the range is only 95 degrees, the mercury falling to only 1 degree below zero. The greatest heat is at Fort Yuma, in Southern California, situated in latitude 32, on the Colorado river; the average maximum heat for three and a half years being 121 degrees, and the range 102. The least average rang was at Fort Oxford, Oregon, on the Pacific co