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LETTER IV. 



Creole languor from heat of climate— favorable to the Bru- 

 nonian doclrine. Effect of climate upon a Dutch failor. 

 Lord Sheffield hailed by a man in the fea. An intoxicated 

 failor overawed by the prefence of a fuperior. 



Barbadoes, April. 



Indolence is confidered to be the general 

 effect of exceffive heat of climate ; and had the 

 great Bruno vifited the tropical regions, he 

 might here have found many fafts in fupport 

 of his plaufible and very ingenious dodtrine. 

 The languor of climate is felt by few on their 

 early arrival in the Weft Indies. The firft 

 effed: of the heat feems to be that of ftimulat- 

 ing the rigid northern fibre into increafed 

 activity — and Creole inertnefs follows only- as 

 the refult of continued refidence. 



a Precifely thus," would have exclaimed 

 the ingenious Bruno, " and fo with wine, 

 opium, beloved brandy, and all other ftimuli. 

 They, at firft, only increafe the excitement, 

 and give new vigour to the frame $ but, con- 



