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shaded from the sun, are as hot as if they had been placed before 
a fierce fire: at the same time, water in guglets from Persia, and 
jars of porous earth, hung up in the current of wind, is refreshingly 
cold; and wine, beer, and other liquors, in a cotton wrapper, 
constantly wetted, exposed in the same manner, a short time be- 
fore they are brought to table, are like iced wines in Europe 
As a contrast to the violence of the monsoon, and the unplea- 
sant effects of the hot winds, there is sometimes a voluptuousness 
in the climate of India, a stillness in nature, an indescribable soft- 
ness, which soothes the mind, and gives it up to the most delightful 
sensations: independent of the effects of opium, champoing, and 
other luxuries, so much indulged in by the oriental sensualist! 
