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sound reason. At Penang Singapore and

Madeira, such an institution has been

excited or contemplated_

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very great

clevations.

in

The most prevalent diseases Hongkong are fevers of the remittent, and intermittent tippe, dysentery, and sheumatism. There

are do circumstances Lo

favorable for

the development of either of these diseases as

: excessive atmospherical heat and great-

が

humidity.

It has been established as a

meteorological - fact admitting of no doubt,

that the quantity of humidity existing in

the atmosphere,

al

well.

as the temperature,

diminishes with elevation. On the slopes of the Andes this fact is most apparent, 3 feet above the leach

On an altitude of 242

level

of the sea the temperaturi = falls 1°. In

advancing one-degree-

to the north the same

result is obtained. Thus

an ascent of 242

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2.4

95

feet is, as respects temperature, equal to a degree of latitude. In great altitudes there cxist strata of climates. The citizens of the

Andes

may, by a comparatively

salon

short ascent

of the

experienced at pleasure every most favoured climates When it is

remembered what are.

the

invigorating effects of "change of air on the alternated constitution,

it will be at once conceded that such

facilities of obtaining it constitute a great- privilege.

proposed

The contemplated site of the

"Sanitarium is 1774 fect. above the -level of the sea., and. by repeated experiment.

the

average range of the thermometer is found to be 10 less at this clevation than it is in the town of Victoria. Moreover the position, which is attainable by a practicable road, is exposed to the S. W monsoon; and. in consequence of the diminishedi