M an u fa C.
Climate.
d ollar,-worth nearly fispence Ehglilhf. and half diftnes hr twentieths.
The cent in copper is equal to the hundredth part of a dollar, or little
moil than thfe Englifh halfpenny ; while the half ceW nearly «ftre-
fponds with the farthing.
CHAPTER IV.
■ " N At in a £!: G-i. o g r a pit y. '
Climate and Seqfons.—Fice of fhejCountry.— ISotl and /IgricWurL— Rivers. — ’
_Moimte^.^Sv>amps.^^taia^7^losyfs-0 Hkdtiip.W ^ neral
Waters '.— Natural Curiofi tie’s.
TH E climate of the United territories, as'J already mehShStied,»!
chiefly remarkable fo,r hidden tranfitittns fronT hea^fe’celfl, $3$-'
the c^trary. The wind from the north-weft is:vMbhd^!jc^|fefit
pafles a wide expanfe of the frozen continent. In the plains oh -thefeaft of
Apalachian chain the fummer heats are immoderate^ and in fome||htes
even'ice will not prefcrve poultry or filh from putrefadaonol iT«ards
the: mountains the climate is falutary even In the'fouth'efni Bates, ag is
evinced by the bloom of the damfels in the back fettlefheiits o f 'Virginia.
In the northern ftates the'winter is-longer/ and more fevered than in England,
butthe fummer heat more intenfe. A N. E. wind'.commonly attends
rain, while on the weft fide of the Apalachian mountains a S. W.
has that effedtf In Georgia the winter is very, mild, fnow- being feSlora
feen, and the eaft wind is there the warm eft;'
This exceftive heat of theplaing muft be regarded' as one caufe of that
fatal peftilential malady called the yellow fever, which- fir ft appeared at
Philadelphia in 1793, and has'fince too frequently repeated- Its ravages in
various cities of the common wealth. Several: medical men have treated this
ftibiedl with confiderable care and ability, hut do not feem to'’hive exanftned
whethei any fimilar difeafe was before .known on the continent, Climati
and what-method of cure.; was practiced. 'A iz | || in- his fujpri'vts^re- ,
b#§h^?ntj|d§fedjan epidemical
diftempek, Gallop
k n p w,n h y p fh ^ n a^m r n d f > t EU.ItJ
voj|i|>i®vllieh i^h^^}%^fe^P5ge, of|t{te
a<nd _i^3»7!(it.,fweppi;^w'a!y ab,oy^©&||r'third^^h^fphab^iitsf|s^tl^Zi^,*"r'
p jta lan d in, it.a^npft depbp^jated tjae -
zate^hinks that thfts difPrde£5pfAf4ep§ 1 ,fr©m the' b^rirj^idg^-with thq
blp^Wfe patient <|frepft^e^ing'aft,.t^p^e and; iftemth ^ an Ta Jpkpfe-
is extremelysdaftgeifous.- 'H e 'difluadesn.pBjrga.tiv^sr L *
w h e n o t h e r , diforders jbsyhfuperin'd^^ithe^^/^^^/4^h,ich
in Mexico always begun i among theTndians,->ta4id vj-as Gjbufined'
to item. 1 Maytaot this diforder he as, ipnblXiHie^^V^h;-.the yellow*1
feverrassthe’'hlatk-and yellow jaundice Tire Spanifh phybci^uskaaight||i?
?tl any^rate be fcWfuUed,. as they havedfertg^heen ^adcnflpmed^ to^he,
American maladies; -and iriisrboped that’this'hint mayvpoi', be unfub-
fervient .-to the inter efts ©f humanity.» .-
Thenfeafons in the’ United- StatesigeirefaHy eorrefpondA wi.t-h Ahpfe.in ik»snLii ‘,.
Eurppe, ,bnt not with-the equality Jo be‘ e,xpe-ffted.iS^^
even,during the fummer he^ts-, fingle;daysbwil,l opcur, whipb t$qukq,tbb'«
warmth of aifire.j The latitude,oftLahradqr.cqrrefpqnds3with that^pf
Stockholm, and that of Canada with France,') but what a wide difference»,
itr thp temperature ! Even the eftuary of,the Delawar is'generally frozen
fqrfix weeks every winter. Nor does tha^eftern coaft nf N(arrhr
America feem warmer than the - eafterni ) -The ptmerous^forefts,, and.
wide.expa.nfes of freih. water, perhaps contribute 5t,o^this cotapatSfive
coldnefs.qf the climate, which may gradually, yield. Jo- thei®ogrpfs of.
population and induftry.,
Tfle fate of. thefe, extenffye territoriegis not- £0, minutqlyvdiverfified as Fa<^ T
might have been expedled, the features of nature being, here'on a larger piptty.
and more uniform feaie than in Europe. Nortgre th^re any fqenes/of
claflical or hjftorical reminifcence, which tranfport the mind, to remote
D’A h troche, Voyage .to California, p. 79.' "CJlloa^Kv? tv. c. vi. fays that the black: vomit,
was not known till,i74p, .and is thought to have been imported by-the galleons from Manilla^. :
centuries,