. Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal. in a democratic colony ! Theclimate of California is very healthy;—there is atendency in it to intermittent fever and ague in someparts of the mountains; but in the mines, sicknesshas generally resulted from imprudent exposure, andthe drinking of the worst possible description ofardent spirits. On the sea coast and at San Francisco,the weather is very changeable during the summermonths. When the sun rises and clears away thefog that hangs over the Bay, the air is as pure andtransparent as that of Naples; by noon the glass isat 90
. Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal. in a democratic colony ! Theclimate of California is very healthy;—there is atendency in it to intermittent fever and ague in someparts of the mountains; but in the mines, sicknesshas generally resulted from imprudent exposure, andthe drinking of the worst possible description ofardent spirits. On the sea coast and at San Francisco,the weather is very changeable during the summermonths. When the sun rises and clears away thefog that hangs over the Bay, the air is as pure andtransparent as that of Naples; by noon the glass isat 90°, and then the sea breeze sets in, and would bewelcome, but that it does not fan one gently likeother sea breezes, but bursts on you with the force ofa hurricane, blows off a bit of the roof of your house,and sends the fine dust in whirling clouds along thestreet, in such a way that the people would profit bylying down flat on their stomachs, as they do in aregular Simoom ! As the sun goes down the doctorsubsides, after having done a great deal of good in. CLIMATE—HIGH AND DRY. 37 airing the town, which as yet is unprovided withsewers. Then there creeps in steadily a heavy, fatfog, which takes up its quarters in the Bay everynight, and disappears as before mentioned when thesun rises—under whose influence it doesnt melt likeother fogs, but goes out to sea, and watches thetown gloomily, until it is time to come in again. These varieties of temperature during some monthsare methodically regular, but are not productive ofsickness of any kind. The front of the city isextending rapidly into the sea, as water-lots are filledup with the sand-hills which the steam excavatorsremove. This has left many of the old ships, that ayear ago were beached as storehouses, in a curiousposition; for the filled-up space that surrounds themhas been built on for some distance, and new streetsrun between them and the sea, so that a strangerpuzzles himself for some time to ascertain how theApoll
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