Off limb observations of the quiet sun corona
were made with the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer
(CDS) on SOHO during the Whole Sun Month campaign in 
August 1996.  Selected spectral lines in the Normal
Incidence range were recorded up to 1.2 solar radii
above the East and West liimb, and above the polar 
coronal holes.  Intensities of the coronal lines
covering the temperature range from 9 x 10^5 to 2 x 10^6 K
have been measured and used to derive electron temperature
and electron density as a function of the radial
distance above the solar limb.  Results from the East
and West equatorial regions and polar coronal holes
are compared.  The temperature and density in the 
coronal holes is found to be lower than in the closed 
field regions.  A density-sensitive line ratio of
Si IX 350/342 Anstroms is used to derive an average
electron density which is found to decrease from 
5 x 10^8 cm^-3 near the limb to 1 x 10^8 cm^-3 at
1.15 Rsun, in the equatorial region.  Over the polar
coronal holes, where polar plumes dominate the emission
close to the limb, the density varies from 2 x 10^8 cm^-3 
at the limb to 6 x 10^7 cm^-3 at 1.1 Rsun. 
The lowest density found inside the coronal hole on 
the disk is 9.9 x 10^7 cm^-3.  An increase in the 
quiet sun temperature with the radial distance is found
from the Si XII/Mg X and Si XII/Mg IX ratio.  The
Si XII/Mg X temperature varies form 1.1 x 10^  K at 
r = Rsun to 1.4 x 10^6 K at r = 1.2 Rsun in the
equatorial regions.  The EUV emission is compared with 
that of the soft X-rays as measured by the Yohkoh SXT.
The densities and temperatures determined from the
SXT show a similar behavior to that determined from
the CDS.  Density and temperature, averaged over a 
position angle range of 20-50 degrees, show very
little variation over a period of 20 days.