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Excerpt from The City of Denver and State of Colorado Denver. The seasons indeed are well de fined; but they glide lightly by in winters whose keenest rigors are only enlivening and exhilarating, and summers serene and refresh ing with mellow gradations between of spring time and autumn completing a cycle character ized most by its prevalence of sunshine, and by light, dry and tonic properties of the air, that are a healing balm for many of the most serious ills the flesh is heir to. The savants declare that the atmosphere of the city has an electrical quality; it is a common saying in Denver, expressive of the zest it gives to life, that it is a luxury to breathe it; and in the breadth of view, and buoyant spirits of the people, that are the counterparts of the ample prospect and the cheering climate, it is easy to discover the inspiriting influence of environ ment upon the popular habits and character. The mean temperature or denver - disclosed by sixteen years signal service observations - is 49. The average of the highest readings of the thermometer, during those sixteen years, was 86; of the lowest, 7. By the same record the mean daily range was 24, the average annual rainfall of 15 inches, the average velocity of the wind an hour, six miles, and the average num ber of clear and fair weather days a year, 309. The average number of sunshiny days in Denver is 29 a month. From the 3oth of October, 1879, until February sth, 1881, fifteen months, the sun was not obscured all of any one day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.