Excerpt from The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, Vol. 12: November, 1898, to April, 1899, Inclusive

Canada. The Gulf of Mexico, in the minds of most, is associated with the latitudes of the Mediterranean. New Orleans is contemplated as being in about the same latitude as Marseilles or Nice, and Algiers and Morocco as Cuba. The general absence in North America, through occasional severe winter frosts extending as far south as the Gulf of Mexico, of certain charac teristic trees Of southern latitudes fur ther confirms this impression. Hence we have Far north Canada, and hence, too, even southern Ontario is mentally removed far up into the lati tudes of north Germany and the south of England, and prejudged adversely whenever the length and generous warmth Of its summers are thought of in relation to those of France, Austria, South Germany, and even of countries somewhat further north.

A little readjustment of mental im pressions in regard to relative latitudes will do much to correct ideas in regard to our summer seasons, and also in re gard to our winters, though it is al ways to be borne in mind that our position on the eastern side Of a conti nent makes our winters colder than those of the west Of Europe in the same latitudes, just as the winters of China, Korea and japan and the east of Asia generally are colder than those Of Similar latitudes on the Pacific coast of North America.

The Mediterranean, where it laves the delta Of the Nile, is further north than New Orleans, while the same south shore Of that sea curving past Tunis is as far north as southern Illi nois, and only 250 geographical miles further south than Pelee, in Ontario. The northern part of the Mediterran ean is largely in the region of the Great St. Lawrence lakes its most northern shore, in the Adriatic, corresponds in latitude with the north shore Of Lake Huron, leaving Lake Superior the only one Of the greatlakes wholly north Ofthe Mediterranean. Lake Erie in latitude corresponds with the Mediterranean Off Barcelona, in Spain, and reaches south to within a few miles Of the lati tude Of the north coast of the. Egean.

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