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These results, for the convenience of comparison, I have arranged according to the order of the season, and it will be perceived that the mean of the winter and summer quarter, or that of the autumn and spring quarter, does not differ half a degree from the mean temperature of the year. The coldest month is July, the hottest January,—the difference of their mean is only 17º.7; whilst in England, that of the correspondent months amounts to twenty-five degrees.
At Auckland, which is not more than a hundred miles to the south of the Bay of Islands, the mean temperature of the year is 59º, that of the three summer months, 67º.2, and of the three winter months, 52º, their difference being only 15º.2, and their mean six-tenths of a degree above that of the mean annual temperature.