During my travels up the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">Soane</placeName> I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ascended the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">Vindhya</placeName> several times <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Botanizing<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> Geologizing & taking <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>Meterological</sic> <corr>Meteorological</corr> </choice> observations: & finally <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />leaving the valley above <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020902">Bidjeghur</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I crossed the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">Vindhya</placeName> & descended to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">Ganges</placeName> at <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020597 https://www.geonames.org/1262995">Mirzapur</placeName>. With the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Barometer I have levelled this <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />whole route. I carefully noted its <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />indications 4 times a day, with those of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Therm.</abbr> <expan>Thermometer</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> Black bulb-<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Therm.</abbr> <expan>Thermometer</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> Photometer <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& Hygrometer. At night I determined <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the amount of radiation both of a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />naked exposed <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Therm.</abbr> <expan>Thermometer</expan> </choice> & others laid on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the ground, grass &c.<space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" />A really magni<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />ficent aurora was the finest meteor <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I saw. & of this an account appeared in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Indian & European papers. Solar <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />radiation I find much more powerful <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />than it was ever supposed to be in these<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="6v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="7r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">7.</fw>Latitudes, or than I ever observed it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to be in the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009532 http://d-nb.info/gnd/4060997-2">Tropic</placeName>al seas. Even in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />month of <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" from="1848-02-01" to="1848-02-29" cert="high" calendar="#gregorian">February</date> I have obtained results <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />quite opposed to the published conclusions <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on this subject. The extraordinary dryness <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the air on the table-land is <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased">extr</del> <add place="intralinear">very</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />remarkable. 0.387. being the mean <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />amount of moisture during 10 days of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" from="1848-02-01" to="1848-02-29" cert="high" calendar="#gregorian">February</date><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> & on one occasion at 9 PM. 0.140. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />During this period I never saw dew <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />formed<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> though the nights were bright <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& clear: on the plains however <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1000" unit="foot">1000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />below, though the mean <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">dryness</del> <add place="superlinear">moisture</add> </subst> was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />0.516 only, dew was always formed. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Nocturnal radiation was the same <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />amount above & below.