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as the greatest extremes of cold, the climate of all the
southern part of the continent being far more equable
than that of the northern. It is in Sind and in the high-‘ands
 of Baluchistan that the range of temperature between
extreme limits is most marked. It is a matter of no
infrequent occurrence for the thermometer to record a
rise or fall of 70° Fahrenheit within twenty-four hours on
the elevated plains about Kalat, ranging upwards from 20
degrees of frost during the nights of early autumn, when

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‘he heat acquired from a still powerful sun is radiated
from the barren rocks and sand under a clear sky with
nconceivable rapidity. Then the cold at night, enhanced
by 6000 or 7ooo feet of elevation, becomes almost unandurable
 by contrast with the scorching heat of the sun’s
rays by day. Quetta, which is less than 100 miles north
of Kalat, but situated at a somewhat less elevation, and