At the time we felt that extraordinary degree of cold were not more than six miles south west of Rose Hill, and about nineteen miles from the the sea coast.

When I mentioned this circumstance to colonel Gordon, at the Cape of Good Hope, he wondered at it; and owned, that, in his excursions into the interior parts of Africa, he had never experienced anything to match it: he attributed its production to large beds of nitre, which he said must exist in the neighbourhood.] December 27th 1790.

Wind NNW; it felt like the blast of a heated oven, and in proportion as it increased the heat was found to be more intense, the sky hazy, the sun gleaming through at intervals.
At 9 a.m.

85 degrees At noon 104 Half past twelve 107 1/2 From one p.m.until 20 minutes past two 108 1/2 At 20 minutes past two 109 At Sunset 89 At 11 p.m.

78 1/2 [By a large Thermometer made by Ramsden, and graduated on Fahrenheit's scale.] December 28th.
At 8 a.m.