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covered only with a thin cotton ftieet, and 

 protected by my friendly and moft valued 

 mufquito curtain. Even with the door and 

 windows fhut, I can reft without feeling my- 

 felf unpleafantly heated ; and, furrounded 

 with my netting, I quietly regard the hoft of 

 mufquitoes and other infe&s buzzing about 

 me, without the fear of their difturbing my 

 repofe. 



Lying thus in coolnefs and fecurity, after 

 the difturbed and unpleafant nights of late 

 weeks, I do verily enjoy my bed as a great 

 luxury. Inftead of rifing wearied by reftlefs- 

 nefs, and exhaufted by excefs of heat, I now 

 quit my pillow, in the morning, refrefhed, and 

 recruited for the bufy round of the day. 



From the fituation of thefe colonies with 

 refpedt to the fun and the ocean, and from the 

 territory being a continued flat, we are fcarcely 

 ever without a free and fteady breeze, which 

 creates an equable temperature, and renders 

 the climate peculiarly uniform. At fix in the 

 morning the thermometer is ufually between 

 74 and 77 degrees, and at noon it has feldoin 

 varied more than from 81 to 84 degrees. It 



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