. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. it was thedegree of heat that occasioned it, for in Upper Egypt he had suffered an equally high tem-perature1 without any such prostration of strength and spirits. But he believes the hot wind a Fynes Moryson (not the Morison we have so often cited) compares the inspiring of this air to the hasty swallowing of too hotbroth!—a homely but expressive comparison. The thermometer at two oclock rose to 110° in the shade; and on putting the bulb in the sand, outside the tent, in a fewminutes the mercury was at 130°. Chap. V.]
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. it was thedegree of heat that occasioned it, for in Upper Egypt he had suffered an equally high tem-perature1 without any such prostration of strength and spirits. But he believes the hot wind a Fynes Moryson (not the Morison we have so often cited) compares the inspiring of this air to the hasty swallowing of too hotbroth!—a homely but expressive comparison. The thermometer at two oclock rose to 110° in the shade; and on putting the bulb in the sand, outside the tent, in a fewminutes the mercury was at 130°. Chap. V.] VALLEYS, PLAINS, AND DESERTS. cxlv of the desert to be connected with an electrical state of the atmosphere, which has a depressinginfluence on the nervous system. And this, it will be remembered, is the opinion of a medicalman. In Egypt, where, as in Palestine, this wind is much less alarming than even in the borderdeserts, it exchanges its name of simoom for that of kamseen (fifty), because it is felt the mo6tfrequently during fifty days about the vernal
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