{Climate.}
Lastly, As To The Climate, It Is Very Healthful; {Summer.} Our Summer
Is Not So Hot As In Other Places To The Eastward In The Same Latitude;
{No Earthquakes.} Neither Are We Ever Visited By Earthquakes, As Many Places
In Italy And Other Summer-Countries Are.
Our Northerly Winds, in Summer,
cool the Air, and free us from pestilential Fevers, which Spain, Barbary,
and the
Neighbouring Countries in Europe, &c. are visited withal.
{Serene.} Our Sky is generally serene and clear, and the Air very thin,
in comparison of many Parts of Europe, where Consumptions and Catarrhs reign
amongst the Inhabitants. The Winter has several Fitts of sharp Weather,
especially when the Wind is at N.W. which always clears the Sky,
though never so thick before. However, such Weather is very agreeable
to European Bodies, and makes them healthy. The N.E. Winds
blowing in Winter, bring with them thick Weather, and, in the Spring,
sometimes, blight the Fruits; but they very seldom endure long,
being blown away by Westerly Winds, and then all becomes fair and clear again.
{Spring.} Our Spring, in Carolina, is very beautiful,
and the most pleasant Weather a Country can enjoy. {Fall.}
The Fall is accompanied with cool Mornings, which come in
towards the latter end of August, and so continue (most commonly)
very moderate Weather till about Christmas; then Winter comes on apace.
Tho' these Seasons are very piercing, yet the Cold is of no continuance.
Perhaps, you will have cold Weather for three or four days at a time;
then pleasant warm Weather follows, such as you have in England,
about the latter end of April or beginning of May.
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