‘180 istts or striae. 
it would be too much for any but salamanders and Congo negroes. 
This side of the picture is seldom given to the public. The 
tables I have copied from Gov. Robinson’s reports are a marked 
exception in this particular, to which the reader is referred. It 
is easy, however, to avoid exposure at mid-day, and to take one’s 
rides or walks in the morning or in the latter part of the after- 
noon. While yachting, little inconvenience is experienced from 
this cause, as it is customary to take along a supply of umbrellas 
to assist the sails in throwing shadows upon the passengers. The 
water is, without exception, of a most agrecable temperature, 
and the tireless wind, that with remarkable constancy, ruffles its 
surface, while leaving a tawny and enduring impress of its most 
welcome caresses, is freighted with the grateful benisons, uttered 
or unexpressed, of all who feel its cooling and rejuvenating in- 
fluences. The simile, ‘‘as fickle as the wind,” scemed there to 
have little applicability. 
Writing from beneath the shade of one of her noble moss draped 
live oaks, at Mandarin, upon the right bank of the St. John’s 
river, in Florida, the gifted author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, speak- 
‘ing of Florida, says in her ‘‘ Palm Leaves:” 
“‘Sudden changes from heat to cold are the besetting sin of 
this fallen world. It is probably one of the consequences of 
-Adam’s fall, which we are not to get rid of till we get to the land 
of pure delights. It may, however, comfort the heart of visitors 
-to Florida to know that if the climate here is not in this respect 
just what they would have, it is about the best there is going.” 
If the word ‘‘about,” in the last sentence quoted, is used in 
the sense of ‘‘ near to,” then it is strictly correct, for the climate 
of Florida is “‘ near to,” (being only two days sail from) that of 
‘the Bahamas. Whatever may be said to the discredit of these 
‘islands, they are certainly not chargeable with that “besetting 
‘sin of this fallen world” to which Mrs, Stowe refers, - 
