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England. A very short residence, generally, perfectly re- 

 conciles people in health to the change, and one of the most 

 remarkable effects of it is, the capability of bearing fatigue. 

 Men who, in the low country, though having nothing to 

 complain of, were in such a state of relaxation, as to feel their 

 morning " constitutional" a task and a bore, think little of 

 being eight or ten hours in the open air on the hills, and that 

 for several days in succession, the only effect of the exercise 

 being, an increase of appetite and spirits, and capability of 

 exertion. 



If any proof indeed were wanted of the perfect adaptation 

 of the climate to our constitution, it would be sufficient to 

 look at the European children, whose rosy chubby cheek*, 

 sparkling eyes, and buoyant spirits, form a pleasing contrast 

 with the pale, languid, irritable-looking little wretches one is 

 so often doomed to see, dying by inches in the low country. 



Females are sometimes less favorably impressed with the 

 climate than those of the other sex. The indolent habits of 

 life acquired by them in the low country, the almost univer- 

 sal derangement of their system, consequent upon exposure 

 to a constant high temperature, and the susceptibility of 

 atmospherical impressions, natural to their highly mobile 

 temperament, sufficiently account for this circumstance j 

 though, I fear, it must, now and then, be attributed to the 

 moral effect of a quiet secluded life, as contrasted with the 

 brilliant, though heartless society they are accustomed to, at 

 most of the large stations in India. Allowing, however, a 

 longer period of acclimatization, they become quite recon- 

 ciled to it in the end ; and the effect on their health, ap- 

 pearance, and spirits, is quite as decided as in the stronger- 

 marked, but less impressible characteristics of the other sex. 

 It not unfrequently happens, that residents in the low coun- 



