Temperature of the globe, see Earth and Ocean; remarkable uniformity over
the same spaces of the surface of the ocean, 303; zones at which occur the
maxima of the oceanic temperature, 319; causes which lower the temperature,
319, 320; temperature of various places, annual, and in the different
seasons, 322, 323-328; thermic scale of temperature, 324, 325; of
continental climates as compared with insular and littoral climates, 321,
322; law of decrease with increase of elevation, 327; depression of, by
shoals, 309; refrigeration of the lower strata of the ocean, 303.
Teneriffe, Peak of its striking scenery, 26.
Theodectes of Phaselis on the color of the Ethiopians, 353.
Theon of Alexandria described comets as "wandering light clouds," 100.
Theophylactus described Scythia as free from earthquakes, 204.
Thermal scales of cultivated plants, 324, 325.
Thermal springs, their temperature, constancy, and change, 221-224; animal
and vegetable life in, 345.
Thermometer, 338.
Thibet, habitability of its elevated plateaux, 331, 332.
Thienemann on the Aurora, 197, 200.
Thought, results of its free action, 53, 54; union with language, 56.
Tiberias, Sea of, its depression below the level of the Mediterranean, 296.
Tides of the ocean, their phenomena, 305, 306.
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