THE CLIMATE. 205 
be effected in nature’s functions, cultivators 
would generally find it necessary, no doubt, 
to resort to irrigation. That portion, however, 
which is conterminous with our western bor- 
der, and to the distance of nearly two hundred 
miles westward, in every respect resembles 
the adjacent States of Missouri and Arkansas 
in climate. The south is a little disposed to 
chills and fevers; but the northern portion 
is as healthy as the most salubrious uplands 
of Missouri. 
