CLIMATE

is the sum-total of the average conditions which make a place suitable or unsuitable for animal and vegetable weather—the life; and it is quite po ible condition—in to have very bad particular climate—the a place which has an excellent general condition. Climate depends on the slope of the land, a vertical ray being much hotter than an oblique one, the height, the distance from the sea, the source of all rain, (4) the latitude, and (5) the prevailing winds. Climate is divided roughly into Marine and Continental. The main feature of a marine climate is moisture, which varies with the warmth of the sea from which it comes that of a continental climate is dryne , which always; involves extremes of heat and cold.