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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1807. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ttiost so. Dr. Currie has said, in bis " Historical Account of the Climates and Diseases of the United States of America," upon the authority of a correspondent in Georgia, that the south wind,- which prevails too frequently for the health of the inhabitants, is damp, sultry, inelastic and oppressive, at all seasons, but amazingly so in the summer and autumn. The idea of a wind being at the same time " damp and sultry" is somewhat irreconcileable, but the fact is not as stated. Our most prevalent wind is not from the south; it is the driest we experience ; nor is it as " inelastic and oppressive" as winds from the eastward; hence a southern front to our dwellings is deemed not only most pleasant, but most salubrious. The healthiness of winds from the south is, however, somewhat diminished by the exhalations from the immense quantitv of filth, improperly and incautiously deposited on the south common; and all the winds from northwest to south-east inclusive, sweeping in their progress a vast surface of swamps and rice-fields, necessarily in their passage take up those particles which lessen their purity, and are unfriendly to health. Local circumstances, whether they be natural or fortuitous, influtnce the healthiness of winds; and hence a north, a west, or an east wind may be salubrious in one situation, but the reverse in another. This, I repeat, is determined by the nature of the ground, they last pass over. It is a fact commonly noticed here, that winds which blow from the east in the summer and autumnal months, though coming from the ocean, are pecu* liarly unhealthy, produce a great degree of lassitude and oppression, predispose the system to fever, and very frequently produce relapses. An explanation of this I have given in another place; but I will here a...
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