Fahrenheit, even in St. Diego, which lies
under the parallel of 32 deg. 39'; while in the east, from 27 deg. in South
Texas, and 30 deg. at New Orleans, up to 49 deg. upon Lake Superior, the mercury
rises to 100 deg. every year, and frequently 105 deg., 107 deg. in St Louis, in
Prairie du Chien, Green Bay, St. Anthony's Falls, and the Lake Superior.
The _resume_ of this is simply that the climate of the western coast of
America is the finest in the world, with an air so pure, that during the
intense heat of summer a bullock, killed, cleansed, and cut into slices,
will keep for months without any salting nor smoking.
Another cause which contributes to render these countries healthy and
pleasant to live in is, that there are, properly speaking, no swamps,
marshes, nor bayous, as in the United States, and in the neighbourhood
of Acapulco and West Mexico. These lakes and bayous drying during
summer, and exposing to the rays of the sun millions of dead fish,
impregnate the atmosphere with miasma, generating typhus, yellow fever,
dysenteries, and pulmonary diseases.
If the reader will look over the map I have sketched of the Shoshone
country, he will perceive how well the land is watered; the lakes are
all transparent and deep, the rivers run upon a rocky bottom as well as
all the brooks and creeks, the waters of which are always cool and
plentiful.
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