this summer has been about 87° in the shade, and this only on one or two day For a month or so it ranged about 82° in the hottest part ofthe day, cooler at nights, and now and then a drop of eight to ten degrees in the day. And this has been, in that matter, an average summer. On Liukungteo cricket and other games have, during the whole time, been freely indulged in. It is certainly a cooler place to spend August and September in than Chefoo, and in time Weihaiwei may take away much of the popularity of that place as a summer resort.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.