This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... The seasons in this country, generally speaking, are exceeding regular, particularly at Aleppoy where the air is usually very healthy, and so pure and free from damps that all the inhabitants, of what rank soever, sup and sleep in their court-yards, or upon the house tops, expofed to the open air, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... The seasons in this country, generally speaking, are exceeding regular, particularly at Aleppoy where the air is usually very healthy, and so pure and free from damps that all the inhabitants, of what rank soever, sup and sleep in their court-yards, or upon the house tops, expofed to the open air, from the end of May to the middle of September., without suffering any inconveniency from it. However, as I shall hereafter have occasion to be more particular pn this subject, I will at present only mention in general the changes of the seasons, as they appear to our senses. The natives reckon the severity of the winter to last but forty days, which they call Maarbank, beginnings from the twelfth o December, and ending the twentieth of January; and in fact this computation comes near the truth. The air, during this time, is excessively piercing, particularly to strangers, even though they are but just come from a cold climate. In the thirteen years that I resided there, it happened not above three times that the ice was of sufficient strength to bear a man, and that too with caution, and only in a situation, where the sun-beams never reached it. The snow, excepting three years, never lay above a day, and even in the depth of winter, when the fun shines out and' there is no wind, it is warm, nay sometimes almost hot, in the open air. Narcissus's are in flower during the whole of this weather, and hyacinths and violets at the latest appear before it is quite over. As February advances, the fields which were partly green before DEGREES now by the springing up of the later grain become entirely covered with an agreeable verdure, and though the trees continue in their leafless wintery state till the end of this month, or the beginning of Marchy yet...
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