" In the report published in the Philosophical Transactions he also refers to the heat: "Every wished-for favourable circumstance attended the whole of the day, without one single impediment excepting the heat, which was intolerable; the thermometer which hung by the clock and was exposed to the sun, as we were, was one time as high as 119 degrees.

I have chopped wood in my shirt-sleeves in front of my door at Dawson City when the thermometer was 70 degrees below zero, and I suffered no inconvenience.

A thermometer is a glass tube, fastened to a piece of wood or perhaps tin, and inside is a thin, shiny column.

It is a fact, though as startling as some of the dogmas of the Edinburgh school of political economy, that the thermometer is no judge of warm or cold weather.

The thermometer was this morning at fourteen and a half.

All these little things tell, my child, and I am glad to know that even the thermometer is your friend.

"I can think of lots better things to do than go roaming about a hot old attic when the thermometer is ninety-six in the shade.

The compass stood north-east and a half, the thermometer was chafing fearfully, and the jib-boom, only two-thirds reefed was lashing furiously against the poop-deck.

But this cannot go on,the thermometer is at 78 degrees in the shade,an intense and contagious stillness reigns through the house,some good genius waves a bunch of poppies near those little fretful faces, for which a frown is rather heavy artillery.

Here and there on the exposed slopes the day's warmththe thermometer was nearly forty degreesand the night's cold had made a bald and shining crust upon the snow; but the most part was soft powdered stuff, ready to catch the light on a thousand crystals and multiply it sevenfold.