"Calm yourself, my worthy friend," replied Barbicane; "the projectile withstood a very much higher
temperature than this as it slid through the strata of the atmosphere.
Temperature of the climate Root Diggers on horseback An Indian guide Mountain prospects The Grand Rond Difficulties on Snake River A scramble over the Blue Mountains Sufferings from hunger Prospect of the Immahah Valley The exhausted traveller
The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the
temperature at which life could begin.
If I augment the
temperature by 180 degrees, the gas will dilate 180/480 and will displace 16,740 cubic feet more, and its ascensional force will be augmented by 1,600 pounds.
"But my boy," he continued, "doesn't that
temperature reading mean anything to you?
The rigorous winters and sultry summers, and all the capricious inequalities of
temperature prevalent on the Atlantic side of the mountains, are but little felt on their western declivities.
On the surface of our unhappy spheroid we are always either too hot or too cold; we are frozen in winter, broiled in summer; it is the planet of rheumatism, coughs, bronchitis; while on the surface of Jupiter, for example, where the axis is but slightly inclined, the inhabitants may enjoy uniform
temperatures. It possesses zones of perpetual springs, summers, autumns, and winters; every Jovian may choose for himself what climate he likes, and there spend the whole of his life in security from all variations of
temperature.
He told Kama as much, but on the third day the
temperature began to rise, and they knew snow was not far off; for on the Yukon it must get warm in order to snow.
Yet with this high
temperature, almost every beetle, several genera of spiders, snails, and land-shells, toads and lizards were all lying torpid beneath stones.
All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in the bodily figure, caused perhaps(if not congenital) by some collision in a crowd; by neglect to take exercise, or by taking too much of it; or even by a sudden change of
temperature, resulting in a shrinkage or expansion in some too susceptible part of the frame.
The thermometer indicated a
temperature of 4.25 (cent.): a
temperature that at this depth seemed common to all latitudes.
Mingott issued an imperial summons to him to come and compare diets as soon as his
temperature permitted; for old Catherine was now the first to recognise that one could not be too careful about
temperatures.
