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fituated at a greater diftarice from that, 

 than from the Tropic of Cancer, lb the 

 rains at that feaibn are here lefs violent, 

 and of fhorter duration ; befides, they 

 are unaccompanied with thunder, which, 

 from whatever caufe it may happen, 

 is never heard here during thofe months 

 which conftitute winter in Europe. 



The term of each dry feaibn is during 

 fix or feven weeks before, and as many 

 after, the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. 

 During the continuance of thefe fea- 

 fons, there is feldom a drop of rain ; 

 the air is clear and ferene, and plen- 

 tiful dews fupply the abfence of rain. 

 Thefe feafons, however, are much 

 more unhealthy than the rainy, be- 

 caufe the water, which inundates all the 

 uncultivated land adjacent to the fea 

 coaft, during the wet feafon, and which 

 then preferves an incefTant fluctuation, 

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