Even The People Of The Country, Who Enjoy Good Health, Are Afraid
Of Exposing Themselves To The Air At This Season, The
Intemperature Of Which May Last Till The Middle Of May, When All
The Snow On The Mountains Will Probably Be Melted:
Then the air
will become mild and balmy, till, in the progress of summer, it
grows disagreeably hot, and the strong evaporation from the sea
makes it so saline, as to be unhealthy for those who have a
scorbutical habit.
When the sea-breeze is high, this evaporation
is so great as to cover the surface of the body with a kind of
volatile brine, as I plainly perceived last summer. I am more and
more convinced that this climate is unfavourable for the scurvy.
Were I obliged to pass my life in it, I would endeavour to find a
country retreat among the mountains, at some distance from the
sea, where I might enjoy a cool air, free from this impregnation,
unmolested by those flies, gnats, and other vermin which render
the lower parts almost uninhabitable. To this place I would
retire in the month of June, and there continue till the
beginning of October, when I would return to my habitation in
Nice, where the winter is remarkably mild and agreeable. In March
and April however, I would not advise a valetudinarian to go
forth, without taking precaution against the cold. An agreeable
summer retreat may be found on the other side of the Var, at, or
near the town of Grasse, which is pleasantly situated on the
ascent of a hill in Provence, about seven English miles from
Nice.
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