FORTY-FIFTH SUNDAY

448. Un froid de 28 degrés. — A température of 28° below the freezing point.

Though the French centigrade thermometer is superior to any other, that of Réaumur still continues in gênerai use among them. Twentyeight degrees of Réaumur correspond with 31° below zéro of Fahrenheit : twenty-eight of the centigrade, with 19° below.

Napoléon, however, in his officiai bulletin of this event, says : " Le froid qui avait commencé le 7, s'accrut subitement, et, du 14 au 15 et au 16, le thermomètre marqua seize et dix-huit degrés au-dessous de glace." Sixteen degrees of Réaumur would correspond with 4°

below zéro of Fahrenheit ; and sixteen of the centigrade, winch the emperor niay hâve used, with 3° above zéro.