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326 GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN.
Focs. The fogs of this country are horrible, frequent and thick,
and moft unwholefome. Officers fent into the falt marfhes for
the purpofe of taking a furvey, have found the vapours fo grofs
and putrid, that every now and then they were obliged to af-
cend the higheft trees for the fake of getting a little refpira-
tion; few efcape without a fit of illnefs, and numbers die out
of thofe fent on this horrible fervice *.
" It is true indeed that the fair fex in general efcape the
(l cruel fevers of this climate, which is owing to the tem-
" perance of their lives, and their not being obliged to expofe
« themfelves to the violent heats, as our fex is often under the
« neceffity of doing. But the Engliß women are not without
*f their diforders; they are feized with an oppreffion of their
(i nerves, flow fevers, and bile. Thefe, with a conftant per-
il fpiration, foon makes the rofes on their cheeks to vanifh.
" A pale yellow complexion fucceeds, and every fymptom of
(i youth and beauty difappears."
" Every thing but cold is in extremes here; the heat is
" intenfe, the rains floods, the winds hurricanes, and the hail-
* flones, I dare not teil you how large, left you fhould think
" that I take the licenfe of a traveller. But what I always
" behold with reverence and awe, and at the farae time with
" pleafure, is the lightning, not an evening paffes without it;
44 it is not that offenfive glare of light I have been ufed to fee,
" but a beautiful fire which plays amongft the clouds, and
<l paffes from one part of the heavens to another in every di-
" rection, and in every variety of Vibration."
* Phil. Tran£ vol. Ivü. p. 218.
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Focs. The fogs of this country are horrible, frequent and thick,
and moft unwholefome. Officers fent into the falt marfhes for
the purpofe of taking a furvey, have found the vapours fo grofs
and putrid, that every now and then they were obliged to af-
cend the higheft trees for the fake of getting a little refpira-
tion; few efcape without a fit of illnefs, and numbers die out
of thofe fent on this horrible fervice *.
" It is true indeed that the fair fex in general efcape the
(l cruel fevers of this climate, which is owing to the tem-
" perance of their lives, and their not being obliged to expofe
« themfelves to the violent heats, as our fex is often under the
« neceffity of doing. But the Engliß women are not without
*f their diforders; they are feized with an oppreffion of their
(i nerves, flow fevers, and bile. Thefe, with a conftant per-
il fpiration, foon makes the rofes on their cheeks to vanifh.
" A pale yellow complexion fucceeds, and every fymptom of
(i youth and beauty difappears."
" Every thing but cold is in extremes here; the heat is
" intenfe, the rains floods, the winds hurricanes, and the hail-
* flones, I dare not teil you how large, left you fhould think
" that I take the licenfe of a traveller. But what I always
" behold with reverence and awe, and at the farae time with
" pleafure, is the lightning, not an evening paffes without it;
44 it is not that offenfive glare of light I have been ufed to fee,
" but a beautiful fire which plays amongft the clouds, and
<l paffes from one part of the heavens to another in every di-
" rection, and in every variety of Vibration."
* Phil. Tran£ vol. Ivü. p. 218.
I CON-