So Severe And So Manifold Are
The Pains And Aches Which Attend It, That I Feel Strongly Inclined To
Believe
That Bombay, and not "the vexed Bermoothes," was the island
of Prospero, and that the plagues showered upon Caliban still
Remain.
Though the progress of acclimation can scarcely fail to be attended by
danger to life or limb, the process, when completed, seems to be very
effectual, since little or no pains are taken by the old inhabitants
to guard against the evil.
Some of the withdrawing-rooms of Bombay are perfectly open at either
end, and though the effect is certainly beautiful - a charming living
landscape of wood and water, framed in by the pillars at the angles of
the chamber - yet it is enjoyed at too great a risk. Dining-rooms are
frequently nearly as much exposed, the aim of everybody apparently
being to admit as great a quantity of air as possible, no matter from
what point of the compass it blows. Strangers, therefore, however
guarded they may be in their own apartments, can never emerge from
them without incurring danger, and it is only by clothing themselves
more warmly than can be at all reconciled with comfort, that they can
escape from rheumatic or other painful attacks.
These land-winds are also very destructive to the goods and chattels
exposed to them; desks are warped and will not shut, leather gloves
and shoes become so dry that they shrink and divide, while all
unseasoned wood is speedily split across.
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