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fituations, hi fo large and diverfified a range, is, moreover, a de- 

 firable advantage to purchafers and fettlers, who may accommodatd 

 themfelves eaiily in that point. Nor is it a mean coniideration, 

 that valetudinarians, and perlbns recovering from illneG, may ei- 

 ther derive a re-eftablilliment of health from feme of the noblefl: 

 mineral waters on the globe, or from the pure and bracing air of 

 the mountains ; remedies, which, though fo obvious, are too little 

 valued here; whilft many, in feeking a cure, by defperately pofHng 

 into the frozen climes of North-America, or Europe, frequently , 

 pcrifli in the attempt ; or, if they get through the voyage, often 

 undergo a mod levere and hazardous trial of their conflitution, by 

 encountering the rigours of a long winter, 



SECT. III. 



General Remarks, con7iecled ivith the foregoing Suhje£l-vi alter. 



1. THE fun's courfe feems to govern the diredlion of the 

 trade-wind, or breeze. 



2. The fiilling of rain here produces a pofitive coolnefs in the 

 temperament of the air. The thermometer, after a lliower, falls 

 fometimes fix to eight degrees. 



3. This cool flate will continue, if the fun remains obfcured 

 with a high mift, or thick vapour. This generally may be noted 

 immediately after the feafons. 



4. When the weather is exceedingly hot, but continually dry, 

 Spanid-i Town is perfedlly healthful. 



5. There is feldom a variation of more than fix to nine degrees 

 on the thermometer in one day at Spanilh Town, obferved from fix 

 in the morning to ^\y. in the afternoon. 



6. The barometrical variations are greateft in April, May, and 

 Odober. 



7. After fqualls and rain all day in the lowlands from the South- 

 ward, if rain has fallen heavily in the mountain?, the wind is 

 changed at Spani(h Town, towards evening, to a North, or elfe a 

 flrong land-wind. 



8. A long-continued drought, of fome months, almofl always 

 breaks up with a fmart thunder, attended with heavy rains, in this 



ifland ; 



