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•which prevail during the rains, when they may walk out at all 

 hours with advantage. This precaution is only intended to 

 apply to a state of actual sickness or debility ; for persons 

 in riide health may get out at all times and seasons. During 

 March, April, and' May there are refreshing showers. The 

 temperature in the sun's rays exhibited to Mr. Young an 

 excess of from 2.5° to 12° above what the indications were 

 found to be in a veranda out of the sun's rays. 



Should future experience confirm the accounts of the 

 sanitarj- virtues of its climate, this mountainous region, says 

 Mr. Young, may become an asylum for such as have lost 

 their health in other parts of India, not only superseding 

 expensive voyages to the Cape and the Isle of France, but 

 in many cases a trip to the mother countr}-. To such of 

 the civil and military ser\-ants of the India Company as 

 have outlived all their relations and friends in Europe, and 

 to whom a return thither would amount to a melancholy 

 species of banishment, the Nhilgerries present a delightful 

 asylum for the remainder of their lives,— a sort of Eurasian 

 climate, and within a moderate distance from the friends 

 of their adopted country, many of whom they may expect 

 to see on the hills. 



A report has lately been published in regard to a sana- 

 tarium for the Calcutta district at DargeeUng, in the Sikkim 

 mountains. The travelling distance of DargeeUng from 

 Calcutta is about 3.30 miles. It is situated on one of the 

 numerous branches of the Sinchul mountain, elevated nearly 

 9000 feet, and forming a remarkable feature in every %iew 

 of the Sikkim hills from the plains. Captain Herbert, who 

 visited the spot on the part of the government, is of opin- 

 ion that the climate, salubrity of the approaches, and the 

 convenience of the situation, all speak in its favour. Its 

 elevation above Calcutta is 7218 feet, and its mean tempera- 

 ture is calculated to be 24° below that of Calcutta, and only 

 2° above that of London (52°). 



Accommodation for invalids has been provided at Simhi, 

 a station among the hills between the Sutledge and Jumna 

 near Subhatto, and 7500 feet above the sea. Even the 

 winters here are much less rigorous than in England, with 

 the advantage of powerful solar radiation, which is said to 

 increase as we ascend higher on the mountains. 



Pooree, which can be reached by sea at all seasons from 



