January 55° 20° 35° 46° 20° 26° 50° 24° 26° February 60 34 26 52 25 27 44 25 19 March 67 32 35 66 32 34 54 24 30 April 71 31 40 67 32 35 76 29 47 May 80 34 46 72 36 36 72 32 40 June 92 42 50 73 42 31 85 40 45 July 79 53 26 90 45 45 81 42 39 August 81 52 29 83 43 40 84 38 42 September 73 38 35 84 42 42 80 38 42 October 61 32 29 64 28 36 68 28 40 November 55 30 25 55 18 37 56 12 44 December 54 19 35 56 8 48 56 20 36 The averages of temperature for the four seasons at these three points, Portland, Eola, and Corvallis, are as follows: POINTS. Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. Portland 51·9° 65·3° 52·8° 40·1° Eola 48·3 63·7 51·2 38·2 Corvallis 52 67 53 41 The difference between the extremes is therefore for Portland, 25·2°; for Eola, 25·5°; for Corvallis, 26°. Contrast this with similar figures from Davenport, in the State of Iowa. The winter mean there is 19·9°, the summer 75·2°; showing a difference of 55·3°. At Corvallis, throughout the summer months and till late in the fall, a daily sea-breeze springs up from the west about one o'clock in the afternoon, and continues till night closes in, and then dies off gradually. However pleasant this is to the settler heated in the hay- or harvest-field, it brings its perils too. I give an earnest caution not to be betrayed into sitting down in the shade to cool down, with coat and vest off, while this sea-breeze fans a heated brow, or a sore attack of rheumatism or its near relative, neuralgia, will very likely make you rue the day. Rather put on your warm coat and button it close, and let the cooling process be a very gradual one. But if, by your own forgetfulness of simple precautions, you have taken cold, and rheumatism has you in its grip, do not turn round and abuse a climate which is one of the most delightful in the whole temperate zone, but blame yourself, and yourself only.