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120 THE CLIMATE OF INDIA.
CHAPTEB X.
THE CLIMATE OE INDIA.
General range of the thermometer—Bengal, Madras, and Bom-
bay—Remedies for heat—Diseases of India—Hill stations.
" How about the climate ?" is a question which
very naturally suggests itself to all persons purposing
to take up their abode in India. Any advantages in
the shape of pecuniary gain and social position which
India may confer are dearly purchased at the expense
of health; indeed, these advantages cannot be reaped
at all if there is not some measure of certainty, or
some reasonable chance, that the climate will be found-
suited to the constitutions of those who may proceed
to either of the Presidencies.
Of course, in so vast a continent, varied in its phy-
sical features, and embracing twenty degrees of latitude,
there must necessarily be a great diversity of climate.
The air of the hills is purer and cooler than that of the
plains; the presence of jungle and swamp is more per-
nicious than their absence; excessive aridity is as
injurious as superabundant moisture. In India we
find all the topographical peculiarities which induce
CHAPTEB X.
THE CLIMATE OE INDIA.
General range of the thermometer—Bengal, Madras, and Bom-
bay—Remedies for heat—Diseases of India—Hill stations.
" How about the climate ?" is a question which
very naturally suggests itself to all persons purposing
to take up their abode in India. Any advantages in
the shape of pecuniary gain and social position which
India may confer are dearly purchased at the expense
of health; indeed, these advantages cannot be reaped
at all if there is not some measure of certainty, or
some reasonable chance, that the climate will be found-
suited to the constitutions of those who may proceed
to either of the Presidencies.
Of course, in so vast a continent, varied in its phy-
sical features, and embracing twenty degrees of latitude,
there must necessarily be a great diversity of climate.
The air of the hills is purer and cooler than that of the
plains; the presence of jungle and swamp is more per-
nicious than their absence; excessive aridity is as
injurious as superabundant moisture. In India we
find all the topographical peculiarities which induce