New-York... Inhabitants... dmufements, Esfc; 
inflamed to that degree, as if they had 
‘had the meatles. In the city of New- 
York, the.climate is undoubtedly very 
healthy, notwithitanding the exivemes of 
heat and cold to which “it. is Sak ai in 
common with the reit of the United States ; 
a air is pure and gee Sy except du- 
g fhe fultry dog-days; but.the tervid 
dunt of the furamer and autumnal feafons is 
greatly mitigated by the rcivefhing whole- 
iome jea-breeze, and the currents of air 
from tither river. At all feafons the tky is 
‘gtnerally ferene; 0: an average, I believe 
that nine months out of the ycar may be 
reckoned clear fair weather | coniequent- 
jy, to robuft confkitutions, able to en- 
fuare uch extremes of heat and cold, the 
American climate imay be more delirable 
than our own gloomy, variable, and rainy 
atmolphere. “The natives, however, do 
not appear to wear jo well as the ee 
and other northern people of Europe ; 
me they looked, in general, fujl a 
ears older than they aciually were, and, 
deldom have that bloom {o common with 
Msa« /T hew premature Jois .ot teeth is al- 
moit proverbial, which deiect I attribute 
xather to their excetlive wle of animal 
food, {pirituous liquors, and molailes, 
than to any malignant or injurious qua- 
dity of the.climate. I have never ieen 
handicmer men than feveral otf the New- 
York gentlemen and Long-Ifland tar- 
@ners; tall of Mature, portly and well- 
‘mace, they evidently have not degene- 
vated from their anceftorse—but the 
dadies are puny, pale, or fallow, and 
foon look old; probably owing to their 
-dittlefs, can. lite, and immoderate in- 
dulgence of tea, and thin chocolate, and. 
dca like enervating flops: they dread 
the approach of fummer, and well they 
may! for the thermoaeter ranges in the 
fbade trom May till October, uiually 
Between and So and go degrees, foine- 
tunes higher, as I myuelt have obfer a 
4t in the months of July and Augutt: 
the middle of May, at Philadelphia, f 
Aound it in the fhade at 86: at New: 
York it was fome degrees lower—it not 
unirequently falls-or rites from 20 to 30 
degrees, within 24 hours! fuch violent 
and iudden viciflitudes of temperature, 
miuit be exceedingly trying to delicate 
conititutions, and ealily accounts for the 
premature old age, fo obfervable in the 
United States. Confumptions and fevers 
are the moft prevalent difeas in New- 
York: the latter might be obviated, by 
Keeping the city fweever near the water- 
fide, and the former would, in all like- 
Monrucy Mac. No. XXIX, 
133. 
lihood, be rare, would the women ufe* 
more exercife, and a more generous diet.” 
To'conclude with refpect to climate, the 
American authors themielves acknow- 
ledge, that their winters maa y be com- 
pared to the Norwegian, the ipring to 
that of England, fummer to Egypt, and 
autumn to italy. ‘The terry or Paulus- 
Hook, at the ddudicn’s mouth, is con- 
fiderably above a mile wide; iome gen-: 
tlenien’s feats on that fide, interf{peried 
among the rocks and woods, have: ‘a: 
very pretty effect, viewed in perfpece 
tive from the city: and im winter, the 
huge maffes of floating ice and congealed ° 
fhow, flowing down the Hudion, have: 
a fi ngular and grand appearance. This 
noble ttream is “navigable for fhips ok 
coniiderable tonnage, as iar as the new 
city .of Hudion, £30 miles irom its 
mouth, and tor {mailer veilels up to Al- 
bany. The flourifhing trade and im- 
eapabe cultivation along @ its banks, am-’ 
ply evince the growing proiperity and - 
fixeheth of the itate. “3 the north-river 
cominands the trade and navigation of an 
extenlive back-country in this and Ver- 
mont States, fo does the eaftern-channel 
that of Connegéti.ut, Long-Tiland, and 
Rhode-Iland, cr Providence-Plantation ; 
thus the city of New-York is alike ad- 
murably ticuated tor home and toreign 
commerce, for health and pleaiure. Ele- 
gant ajd commodious packets continu- 
ally fail between Newport in Khode- 
Ifland, andthis city. ‘he fafhionable 
Jounge in New-York, during the hot 
{tuummer, months, is on the battery, where 
the reviving fea-breeze, and delicious 
ice-creams, "eombige their exhilarating 
powers to invigorate the languid ipirits 
of the beaux and belles, aiter a a {corching 
day; anda charming fight it is from 
thence, to contemplate the radiant fun 
fetting in the glowing wek, or the pale 
moom-beams quivering on tne furiace of 
the beauteous-waters! . ‘Yo enhance the 
wariety of the evening hae sometinies 
fhips are perceived crowding sail, almoft 
cloie to the battery, outward or home- 
ward bound, while-the gaping and buzz- 
ing multitude cheer the adventurous ma- 
riners, or inhale the byeatning ze- 
{oit 
phyrs, torgetting, fora while, the coils 
and cares of the buly day! JT .am. una¢- 
quainted with a more charming prome- 
nade, wnleis, indeed, the Sceyne at Brigh- 
ton, ona fine ijumme " eyening, may. be 
compared to eel has its Tepe ye: 
beauties. 
The New-Yorkers, in.their habits of 
life, partake of the Englifh and Dutch 
Bb mamuers y 
