

Phyfical and MifceUaneous 



OBSERVATIONS 



Relating to the KINGDOMS of 



ALGIERS and TUNIS 8cc. 



CHAP. I 



Of the Air, Produdls, Soil, Foflils &c. of thefe Kingdoms. 



H E cultivated Parts of Thefe King- rhe Tempera^ 

 doms lying betwixt 34,'. and 37'. 'X. "^ ' ' 

 N. Lat. enjoy a very wholefome and 

 temperate Air, neither too hot and 

 fultry in Summer, nor too fliarp and 

 S cold in Winter. During the fpace 

 t^ of twelve Years that I attended the 

 ^ Faftory of Algiers , I found the 

 ~"~ Thermometer, twice only, contra6l- 

 ed to the freezing Point, and then the whole Country was 

 covered with Snow : nor ever did it rife to that of fultry Weather, 

 but when we had the hot Winds from the Sahara. The Seafons of 



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