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Both are characterized by mildness of temperature. After the 
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‘They form perennial pastures, and 
supply the winter food of the aboriginal cattle, everywhere indi- 
- oceans, the rarity of the air inhaled, 
humidity disinfect the earth, the water, and the atmosphere of ex- 
exhalations and miasmas, Health, sound and uninterrupted, stim- 
and sustain a high tone of men physical eneryg. 
All of these are banished, as it were, by the perpetual brilliancy — 
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