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The Emigrant's Guide to Upper Canada; Or, Sketches of the Present State of That Province. Collected from a Residence Therein During the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, Interspersed with Reflections

The Emigrant's Guide to Upper Canada; Or, Sketches of the Present State of That Province. Collected from a Residence Therein During the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, Interspersed with Reflections


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECT. II. Shades of Climate, at well in relation to Health to Vegetable Productions. The general character of the climate of Upper Canada may be designated as warm and good. But these two characteristics vary under particular circumstances, and exist in proportions some' what unequal. From the eastern boundary of the province to Kingston, and between the St.1 Lawrence and Ottawas rivers, its proportion of warmth is least; from Kingston to the head (or north-western border) of Lake Ontario, and southward of the line of small lakes and rivers, which intersect the country between Lake Ontario and the Ottawas, the proportion of warmth is somewhat greater. From the head of Ontario to Port Talbot on Lake Erie, including the Niagara district, the warmth increases; and its greatest degree is from Port Talbot to the Detroit and St. Clair rivers. The western extremity, as it has permanently a greater proportion of heat, so may it, perhaps, in very hot and dry seasons, be a shade less healthy than the other parts of the province. Such seemed to be the case in the summer of 1819, whien a degree and a continuance of warmth was experienced, greater than had been known for the preceding twenty years: and when, amidst the universal sickliness which prevailed in both provinces, that of the western district of the Upper Province, seemed somewhat to preponderate. The fact that increased sickliness arises in very hot and dry seasons, may seem here to demand explanation; for it is the action of heat upon moisture which depraves the air. This was the exact case in the instance in question. The country is intersected with marshyspaces, which flourish in the moisture dripping from the woods around them. Where these are more considerable, they generally have vents into the approximate l...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217796675
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217796672
  • Publisher Date: 12 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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