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ANNUx\L REGISTER, 1S05. 



bafhing is daily practised, such a 

 disease is almost unknown.* During 

 the winter, the thermometer seldom 

 rises above 74°, and sometimes falls 

 to 65°. At this season heavy dews 

 descend during the night, and the 

 mornings arc enveloped in thick 

 fogs, but soon 



The potent sun 

 Jlelts into limpid air the high raised 



clouds, 

 And morning fogs, that hovered round 



the hills, 

 In party colour'd bands, 



leaving the atmosphere pare and 

 serene. The land and sea breezes 

 arc tolerably regnlar : the former 

 commences towards morning, and is 

 connnonly very light. The sea 

 breeze may be seen curling the sur- 

 face of the ocean at noon, but it sel- 

 dom reaches the town before two 

 o'clock : it is generally moderate, 

 cool, and refreshing. 



'I'he Creoles, at this season, seem 

 to feci all the effects of rigorous cold; 

 ivhile wc were melting in the lightest 

 clothing, they muflled themselves up 

 in their cloaks, and sat shivering, 

 ■with their doors and windows closed. 

 The rainy season commences in 

 August ; and for six weeks or two 

 months a continual torrent pours 

 down, with a close and suffocating 

 atmosphere. To the rains succeed 

 the dry and parching months of 

 T\^ovcn)bar and Deccnifaer, when the 

 ItcoIcs are again re-animated : and, 

 awakened by the ardent blaze of the 



sun, from the lethargic torpidity of 

 M inter, renew their occupations or 



amusements. 



Some Account of the late Thomas Pcr- 

 chal, of Manchester, M. D. F. R. S. 

 b>/ Doctor Alagee, of T. C. Dub- 

 lin. 



Thomas Percival was born at 

 Warrington, September the 29th, 

 N. S. 1740. His parents, Joseph 

 and Margaret Percival, both highly 

 respectable in their conduct, en- 

 dowments, and descent, having died 

 at the same time, + he was placed, at 

 the age of four years, under the pro. 

 tection of his uncle, Dr. Thomas 

 Percival, a physician of learning and 

 consideration, resident in Warring- 

 ton. But being deprived likewise 

 of his parental guidance at the age 

 of ten, the sole care of him thence- 

 forward devolved upon his eldest 

 sister, from wliose kind, assiduous, 

 and judicious attentions, he conti- 

 nued to experience most of the bene- 

 fits of parental superintendance, and 

 whom he never alter ceased to re, 

 gard with the strongest sentiments 

 of gratitude, and a tenderness ap- 

 proaching to hiial veneration. 



His education commenced at a 

 private school in the neighbourhood 

 of Warrington. From this, in his 



13th 



year, 



he was transferred to 



the free grammar-school of that 

 town ; in which he gave such strik- 

 ing promise of industry and talent, 



as 



• I know of but two other pnrfs of the world where this disease is greatly pre- 

 valent: at Cochin, on the coast of Malabar, and in the island of Barbadocs. 



t It is a singular and melancholy fact, that the dissolution of tho wife was pre- 

 ceded but a few hours by that of her husband, whose death had been gradually un- 

 doiniined by the sorrows which her long and painful illness had excited; and tliat 

 the remains of both were interred ut the same momeut in the parpchial church-yar«l 

 Hi" Warrington, 



