it is about 6 deg.
north, sweeping along the coast of New Granada; at 20 deg. it comes down
and touches the equator; at 40 deg. E. Long., it crosses the Red Sea about
16 deg. north of the equator, and at 120 deg. it falls at Borneo, several
degrees below it;--and the points of the greatest heat, in this line,
are in Abyssinia, nearer the tropic of Cancer than to the equator. On
the other hand, the greatest mean cold points, according to the
opinions of Humboldt, Sir David Brewster, and others, do not coincide,
as would seem natural, with the geographical poles, but they are both
to be found in the northern hemisphere, in Latitude 80 deg., 95 deg.E. Long.
and 100 deg. W. Long. from Greenwich. The western is ascertained to be
4-1/2 deg. colder than the eastern or Siberian. If this be the fact,--but
it is not positively admitted,--an open sea at the pole may be
considered as probable, on the ground of its having a higher mean
temperature than is found at 80 deg.. Kaemptz places one of these cold
points at the north of Barrow's Straits,--the other near Cape Taimur,
in Siberia. Burghaus, in his Atlas, transfers the American cold pole
to 78 deg. N. Lat.
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