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and did not in the nights fink below 89. I think it 
highly probable, that the inhabitants of this town 
breathe a hotter air than any other people on the face 
of the earth. The greateft heat we had laft year 
was but 92, and that but once : from 84, to 90 were 
the ufual variations ; but this is reckoned an extra- 
ordinary hot fummer. The weather- wife of this 
country fay it forebodes a hurricane ; for it has al- 
ways been remarked, that thele tempers have been 
preceded by continual and uncommon heats. I muft 
acquaint you, however, that the heats we are fubjed: 
to here are more intenfe than in any other parts of 
the province, the town of Savannah being fituated 
upon a fandy eminence, and fheltered all round with 
high woods. But it is very fuflicient, that the people 
actually breathe fo hot an air as I defcribe j and no 
lefs remarkable, that this very fpot, from its height 
and drynefs, is reckoned equally healthy with any 
other in the province. 
I have frequently walked an hundred yards under 
an umbrella, with a thermometer fufpended from it 
by a thread to the height of my noftrils, when the 
mercury has rofe to ioy; which is prodigious. At 
the fame time I have confined this inftrument clofe 
to the hotted; part of my body, and have been afto- 
nifhed to obferve, that it has fubfided feveral degrees. 
Indeed, I never could raife the mercury above 97 
with the heat of my body. 
You know, dear Sir, that I have traverfed a great 
part of this globe, not without giving fome attention 
to the peculiarities of each climate ; and I can fairly 
pronounce, that I never felt fuch heats any-where as 
in Georgia. I kQow experiments on this fubjedt are 
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