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SICILY AND MALTA; 193
This extraordinary heat continued till
3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the wind
changed at once, almost to the opposite
point of the compass, and all the rest of the
day it blew strong from the sea. It is im-
possible to conceive the different feeling of
the air. Indeed, the hidden change from,
heat to cold is almost as inconceivable as
that from cold to heat. The current o£
this hot air had been ssying for many hours
from South to North ; and I had no doubt,
that the atmosphere, for many miles round,
was entirely composed of it; however, the
wind no sooner changed to the North, than
it felt extremely cold, and we were soon
obliged to put on our clothes, for till then
we had been almost naked. In a short time
the thermometer sunk to 82, a degree of
heat that in England would be thought al-
most insupportable, and yet all that night
we were obliged, merely from the cold, to
keep up the glasses of our coach; so much
were the pores opened and the sibres relaxed
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This extraordinary heat continued till
3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the wind
changed at once, almost to the opposite
point of the compass, and all the rest of the
day it blew strong from the sea. It is im-
possible to conceive the different feeling of
the air. Indeed, the hidden change from,
heat to cold is almost as inconceivable as
that from cold to heat. The current o£
this hot air had been ssying for many hours
from South to North ; and I had no doubt,
that the atmosphere, for many miles round,
was entirely composed of it; however, the
wind no sooner changed to the North, than
it felt extremely cold, and we were soon
obliged to put on our clothes, for till then
we had been almost naked. In a short time
the thermometer sunk to 82, a degree of
heat that in England would be thought al-
most insupportable, and yet all that night
we were obliged, merely from the cold, to
keep up the glasses of our coach; so much
were the pores opened and the sibres relaxed
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