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day, enjoy their evening's ramble ; and as the sky is 

 very clear, the climate of Chili is often described as 

 being extremely healthy. Yet the least learned, 

 but perhaps the most satisfactory proof of the 

 healthiness of a climate is not the brightness of the 

 stars, or the colour of the moon, but the appearance 

 of men's and women's faces ; and certainly the people 

 of Chili in general, and of Santiago in particular, 

 have not a healthy appearance. The English there, 

 also, look very pale and exhausted, and although 

 they keep each other in countenance, it appeared to 

 me, that a strong dose of British wind, with snow 

 and rain, and a few of what the Scotch call sour 

 mornings," would do them a great deal of good. 



