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sive quality of the Sirocco at Corfu; though, while it blows, 

 the atmosphere by day is hazy, streaked, and disturbed ; and 

 by night, it is often clear from the deposition of dew, if calm, 

 or the air is beset with light and regular clouds, which are again 

 converted into haze, by the next day's sun. It is late in the 

 spring before the high land in northern Greece gets sufficiently 

 heated to make the land breeze feel warm, or even temperate ; 

 and I have seen from Corfu, in the beginning of June, the 

 whole range of Pindus deeply coated with snow. As summer 

 advances, the winds get light and variable, and are accompanied 

 by a warm and sultry sky in the day time, followed by heavy 

 dews at night. 



In the Gulf of KolokytMa, anciently Laconia, during the 

 summer, the breeze sets up the gulf in the morning, and dies 

 away towards night ; and I have never verified the effects of any 

 malarious winds at night, even when they regularly set in from 

 the land, in the months of August and September. One of our 

 sloops of war, however, experienced a good deal of fever in this 

 gulf in the autumn of 1825. 



The inhabitants of the neighbouring parts of Laconia are 

 much subject to boils and ulcers at this season of the year, and 

 they generally looked unhealthy. 



Cerigo is a high lying island, and is well exposed to the winds 

 in all directions. I found fevers, however, here very preva- 

 lent in August 1825 ; but the disease was principally among 

 the Greek soldiers. The inhabitants, in the absence of all ma- 

 larious ground, attribute their attacks of fever to changes of 

 wind, from the north to the southward. In Port St Nicolo the 

 temperature was 85°, and the breeze followed the course of the 

 sun in the middle of the above month ; though at sea the winds 

 were more fixed to one point. Remittents and agues continued 

 to prevail here in the latter part of the above year, even towards 

 the interior of the island. This sickness was more remark- 

 able, as there is no observable source of miasma, the surface be- 

 ing dry, and free from wood, and the above changes of wind 

 from one point opposite to another, being the only concomitant 



