Bogota'. 3 



route than that of Caraccas,) experience, from 

 the sudden change of the level of Honda 

 to the elevation of Bogota, such effects 

 from the rarity of the air, as to produce op- 

 pression of the chest, violent affections of the 

 bowels, or intermittent fever,^ — in which case 

 I would recommend them to place them- 

 selves instantly under medical charge ; by 

 imprudently neglecting which they are liable 

 to protracted and dangerous illness. 



In this part of the world the division of the 

 year is not as with us who live without the 

 Tropics : here their seasons are divided into 

 rainy and dry, forming two winters, and two 

 summers. March, April, May, September, 

 October, November, are the winter months ; 

 the other six are called the summer months. 

 The dry season begins with the Solstices, the 

 wet with the Equinoxes, varying sometimes 

 ten or fifteen days. It is not to be imagined 

 that these winter months are constantly 

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