100 
ACRE. 
III. 
CHAP, the joints, and appear in the most decrepid 
state after the immediate danger of the fever 
has subsided. Various parts of Asia Minor, of 
Egypt, Greece, and Italy, experience only the 
short period of their winter as a season of 
health. During summer, a visit to the islands 
in the south of the Archipelago, (especially to 
the Island of Milo,) to the Gulphs of Smyrna, 
Salonichi, and Athens, is as a passage to the 
ofrave; and over almost all the shores of the 
Black Sea, and the Sea of Azof , it is impossible 
to escape the consequences of bad air, without 
the most rigorous abstinence. In those coun- 
tries, swarms of venomous insects, by the 
torments they inflict, warn mankind to avoid 
the deadly atmosphere. No idea can be given, 
4rom mere verbal description, of the appearance 
they present. The noise made by these insects 
is louder than can be imagined; and when 
joined to the clamorous whooping of millions of 
toads, (such as the inhabitants of northern 
countries are happy never to have heard,) 
silence, the usual characteristic of solitude, is 
so completely annihilated, that the unfortunate 
Pliny, in a letter to Clemens, wherein he describes the residence of 
Regulus. " Tenet se trans Tyherim in hortis, in qidhus latissinnnn 
solum porlicibus immensis, ripam statuis suis occupavit, ut est in summit 
avaritid sumptuosus, in sum.md infamid gloriosits. Vexat ergo civitatem 
in saliibermno tempore, et quod ve.vat solatium puto.t" Plin, Epist. 
lib. iv. Ep. 2. Biimd. 1789. 
