At The Former Place Its Production Is Common, And Once
A Few Flakes Of Snow Fell.
The difference can be accounted for
only by supposing that the woods stop the warm vapours of the sea
From reaching Rose Hill, which is at the distance of sixteen miles inland;
whereas Sydney is but four.* Again, the heats of summer are more violent
at the former place than at the latter, and the variations
incomparably quicker. The thermometer has been known to alter at Rose Hill,
in the course of nine hours, more than 50 degrees; standing a little before
sunrise at 50 degrees, and between one and two at more than 100 degrees.
To convey an idea of the climate in summer, I shall transcribe
from my meteorological journal, accounts of two particular days
which were the hottest we ever suffered under at Sydney.
[*Look at the journal which describes the expedition in search of the river,
said to exist to the southward of Rose Hill. At the time we felt
that extraordinary degree of cold were not more than six miles south west
of Rose Hill, and about nineteen miles from the the sea coast.
When I mentioned this circumstance to colonel Gordon, at the Cape of Good Hope,
he wondered at it; and owned, that, in his excursions into the interior parts
of Africa, he had never experienced anything to match it: he attributed
its production to large beds of nitre, which he said must exist
in the neighbourhood.]
December 27th 1790.
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