The Land of the sky, and beyond . I a liuiidred foet liigli, and kaleidoscopic clianges from the rugged to the pastoral. dred and fiftv out of every thousand, in Min-nesota and California one hundred and fifty,in Kentuckv and Western Tennessee overone hundred\ the average number in WesternNorth Carolina was but thirty. This percent-age, too, was largely made up from deathsamong those who had come there with well- the electrical bracing air. Why, I feel as ifI was breathing champagne, exclaimed aprominent statesman to the writer during arecent visit. And does it never rain here?he asked. Oh, ye
The Land of the sky, and beyond . I a liuiidred foet liigli, and kaleidoscopic clianges from the rugged to the pastoral. dred and fiftv out of every thousand, in Min-nesota and California one hundred and fifty,in Kentuckv and Western Tennessee overone hundred\ the average number in WesternNorth Carolina was but thirty. This percent-age, too, was largely made up from deathsamong those who had come there with well- the electrical bracing air. Why, I feel as ifI was breathing champagne, exclaimed aprominent statesman to the writer during arecent visit. And does it never rain here?he asked. Oh, yes, was the reply, volun-teered by a third member of the group ; butour well-kept statistics show that we have an. thing average of nearly three hundreddays a year wlienthe sun shines allday, and therewere only elevenlast year withoutany is, too, solittle humidityeven in the win-ter months, thatit is no unusualthing for ladies toramble throughthe woods withas little risk tohealth as theywould have inJune. Anotherfact, our mentorcontinued, which makes every onebrace up themoment they get to Asheville is not gen-erally understood. It is the influence ofaltitude on vitality. Now, physiologiststell us that the heart pressure fromwithin is twelve and a half pounds tothe square inch at any altitude, and atthe seashore the atmospheric pressurefrom without is fifteen pounds, decreas-ing in direct ratio as the altitude is in-creased. This is what producesthattired feeling in lower altitudes, aunknown on the Asheville plateau, which,with its altitude of twenty-three hundred feet,has an atmospheric pressure of just twelveand three-quarter pounds, thus allowing theheart and lungs to perform the
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