celebrity, begins to
blow. It is difficult to give an adequate idea of the change, or of
the injurious effects of the climate under the influence of this
scourge. The same sun shines in the same bright blue sky, but the
temperature is glacial. The sun is there only to glare and dazzle, and
seems to have no more power in producing warmth, than a rushlight
against the boisterous winds, which chill the very marrow in one's
bones. During the prevalence of this wind, it is impossible to stir
out of doors without getting the mouth and nostrils filled with dust.
All nature seems shrivelled and dried up under its baneful influence.'

Nice, likewise, is scourged by the mistral, which there, however,
divides its empire with winds from the north and north-east. 'But one
of the greatest vices characterising the climate of Nice, if not the
greatest, is the remarkable variation of temperature noticed between
day and night--in the sun and in the shade. The land or continental
winds prevail during the night; the southerly or maritime during the
day. The former are cold and dry; the latter, soft and humid. As soon,
therefore, as the former subside, and the sun rises in the horizon,
the humidity commences to shew itself in the atmosphere; whilst, on
the contrary, when the diurnal winds cease, and the sun sets, the
above hygrometric condition of the air disappears.' M. Carriere cannot
conceive why our countrymen prefer Nice to a milder climate, and
considers that the annual mortality in the English colony ought to
discourage other hectic invalids from going thither.

Central Lombardy is, in general, characterised by marshy swamps
poisoning the whole atmosphere with their miasmatic exhalations. The
meteoric influences are decidedly cold and variable; and the 'extremes
of temperature increase in proportion as we approach the valleys at
the foot of the Central Alps, especially those most distant from the
Adriatic coast.' This climate, our author tells us, cannot afford more
benefit to the consumptive than that of the fens of Lincolnshire, or
of the marshes of Holland. Brescia, Pavia, Mantua, and other Lombard
towns, also share in this character; and at Verona, Mr B. Honan
writes, that of all humbugs, the humbug of an Italian climate is the
most intolerable.

At Genoa, although the air is pure and transparent in fine weather, it
is liable to sudden gusts of wind and violent transitions dangerous to
the invalid.

'In no part of England c