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b~#e Brettv maoch all the time in


aracter of the soil and


oae, in


-r


ubhaoil


some parts of the country,


i, than the conditions of the air.
Isorme valuable statistics on thih


imnoture, or a stiff


and


Thoroughly drained, is


midst


almost as i
more importanaqp


Dr. Bowditch has


point.


A soil retentive


clayey subsoil impervious


always


prejudicial


to it,.and


the health of


Abi4abitants.


Parkes* says of soils


" Some soils absorb and


rrx


a water


more


than


others."


passing through rapidly


" Sand


absorbs very little,"


" clay ten or twenty times more;


Shbrmous


or common


surface


more than forty or fifty


as much as sand."


soil, in this respect. In he
able on account of its heat,


" The sands are therefore the healthi-


countries,


unless


it can


sand *is


be covered


objec-


with


The effect of glare on the eyes


0u this becomes a very important point.


tion and with


a white surface, must


is obvious, and


 If a spot, bare of
be used for habits-


some good


result may be obtained by coloring the houses


blue or green."


"The amount of


dust given off from soils


a matter


no soil


of slight


better


moment."


capable


With


of fulfilling


regard to permeu-
this requirement


that of Florida, as


sand


the predominating and some-


only ingredient


in the localities where invalids con-


though


is not


always to


judge


a nay more than the other constituents'of her climate by


f.V& P


r'nae.


i$f almost
fl theeoil


In some localities the soil,


pure


which has the appear-


sand, being quite productive.


is permeable.


But every-


Palatka, unlike any other locility


BtAte, is


covered with


a sod


of green


grass, for whioh


s no one has been able to offer any conclusive explana-


I obviates here


ndy surfaces.
a^ -* V. -


many of the objections urged by Dr.


comparative
valid& nuf


exemption -ft
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