the weather ; of which I give the following abstract
for the year 1825, as sufficient for the present
purpose.
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It will be seen from this table, that the lowest
range of the thermometer, within the year, is 71°,
and the highest 89°. The climate is hot, but
equable. From the absence of distinct seasons, it
is necessarily monotonous.
The site of the town is remarkable for its salubrity,
and the fevers and dysenteries of ordinary
tropical countries are of very rare occurrence. I
have no recollection, indeed, of any European
having fallen a victim to the climate in the long
period of nine years, since the formation of the
settlement. This may appear at first view the
more remarkable, since a considerable portion of
the site of the town, and much of the neighbourhood,
is a low and even noisome marsh. The
healthiness of the situation's, I conceive, chiefly
ascribable to the free ventilation which prevails,
and which precludes the formation of those poisonous
miasmata, which are the true source of
most endemical diseases in warm countries. Sea-
breezes prevail with considerable regularity, but
chilling land-winds are scarcely known—probably
another reason for the salubrity of the place. In
the north-east monsoon, from October jto March,
the settlement is refreshed by stiff breezes blowing
in from the China Seas. The westerly monsoon,
interrupted by the Straits of Malacca and
the neighbouring lands, is not felt. That the free
ventilation of the town now mentioned is the
chief cause of its salubrity, may be inferred from