A hand book of Virginia . t of coun-try between 1,000 and 2,500 feet above the sea level, in which thehumidity is exceedingly low, and in which the number of sunnydays are very large. This region has little dew at night, owing toits low humidity, and has been found beneficial for consumptivesand those troubled with pulmonary diseases. Virginia is also exceptionally free from wind storms and hurri-canes, never having any like those which frequent the Westernplains and the States of the Southwest. Such a thing as a dwellinghouse being blown over is a practically unknown occurrence. Below is the
A hand book of Virginia . t of coun-try between 1,000 and 2,500 feet above the sea level, in which thehumidity is exceedingly low, and in which the number of sunnydays are very large. This region has little dew at night, owing toits low humidity, and has been found beneficial for consumptivesand those troubled with pulmonary diseases. Virginia is also exceptionally free from wind storms and hurri-canes, never having any like those which frequent the Westernplains and the States of the Southwest. Such a thing as a dwellinghouse being blown over is a practically unknown occurrence. Below is the mean monthly temperature of Virginia, Fahren-heit, for the last five years taken in July and December by theUnited States Weather Bureau of Richmond: Mean monthly temperature July Dec. 1906 1907 .. = * 1908 1909 1910 The westerly winds are the prevailing winds. Rainfall The annual rainfall is from forty to sixty inches. It is fairlywell distributed through the entire (33 Commercial Facilities In respect to ready access to markets for the products of hersoil, of her foundries and factories, and of her inexhaustible bedsof coal and iron, as well as in respect to facility of purchase fromthe markets of the world without, Virginia is most favorablycircumstanced. Six trunk lines of railroads penetrate and in-tersect the State. These, with their numerous branch lines, andtheir connections with other roads, place every portion of theState in communication with every principal port and city in thecountry. The lines of steamboats that ply the navigable streamsof eastern Virginia afford commercial communication for large sec-tions of the State with the markets of this country and of Norfolk and Newport News are ports that maintain communi-cation with the European markets by means of sea-going steamersand vessels, while from these ports is also kept up an extensivecommerce along the Atlantic seaboard. The harbor of Hampton
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