In This Short Period Of Four Months, We
Have Had Fifty-Six Days Of Rain, Which I Take To Be A Greater
Quantity Than Generally Falls During The Six Worst Months Of The
Year In The County Of Middlesex, Especially As It Was, For The
Most Part, A Heavy, Continued Rain.
The south winds generally
predominate in the wet season at Nice:
But this winter the rain
was accompanied with every wind that blows, except the south;
though the most frequent were those that came from the east and
north quarters. Notwithstanding these great rains, such as were
never known before at Nice in the memory of man, the intermediate
days of fair weather were delightful, and the ground seemed
perfectly dry. The air itself was perfectly free from moisture.
Though I live upon a ground floor, surrounded on three sides by a
garden, I could not perceive the least damp, either on the
floors, or the furniture; neither was I much incommoded by the
asthma, which used always to harass me most in wet weather. In a
word, I passed the winter here much more comfortably than I
expected. About the vernal equinox, however, I caught a violent
cold, which was attended with a difficulty of breathing, and as
the sun advances towards the tropic, I find myself still more
subject to rheums. As the heat increases, the humours of the body
are rarefied, and, of consequence, the pores of the skin are
opened; while the east wind sweeping over the Alps and Apennines,
covered with snow, continues surprisingly sharp and penetrating.
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