Physical and Medical Climate and Meteorology of the West Coast of Africa: With Valuable Hints to Europeans for the Preservation of Health in the Tropics |
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A.M. Noon Accra afternoon April aqueous vapour atmosphere August barometer Bathurst Bight of Benin Bight of Biafra Bights blows BULB OBSERVATIONS.-At Camaroon Cape Coast carbonic acid clay cloudy cold colony commences dew-point direction disease DRY BULB earth effect elevated Evening-2nd Evening-5th exhalations exposed feet ferruginous soils Freetown Gold Coast harmattan healthy heat hills Hygrometer inches increase inhabitants interior July June lagoon Lagos land Liberia lightning M'Carthy's Island malarious marsh Maximum and Minimum Maximum Daily MEDIUM mercury MILITARY HOSPITAL Minimum Thermometers month morning mountains natives night Noon-2nd Noon-4th north-east OBSERVATIONS.-Morning-1st OBSERVATIONS.-Morning-2nd OBSERVATIONS.-Morning-4th ozone Ozonometer produced quantity of ozone rainy season rise RIVER GAMBIA rocks sanitary saturation sea breeze Senegal sewage Sierra Leone soil south-west St Mary's station sultry surface swamp temperature thermometer thunder tion tornado town tropical climates unhealthy vegetable volcanic weather Western Africa WET BULB whilst yellow fever دو
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