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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 56

§ 6.—Climate

§ 6.—Climate.

To the emigrant, next to the relation of wages to the cost of living is certainly the consideration of climate and health. The British Islands enjoy a temperate and, for the most part, an eminently healthy climate, their situation in the middle latitude of the temperate zone comparing most favourably with that of other regions of the globe. It is not likely, therefore, that the emigrant will prefer going to live under a tropical sun, as in the West African Settlements or the West page 10 Indies, or even in India, where, besides a high temperature, there are local circumstances of soil, mephitic marshes, periodical winds, and other atmospheric phenomena, which make the country very unhealthy to Europeans. But Australia is healthy, and the climate approximates generally that of Southern Europe, the light being brilliant and the sky almost cloudless. Canada has great variety of climates, from the Arctic to that of the most southern of the temperate zone, but the settled portion of Canada is pleasant and healthy. People may, indeed, live anywhere, if proper cares are taken to conform one's habits to the conditions of the country, avoiding especially any excess in the use of alcoholic drinks, but preference will always be given to countries as congenial as possible to our habits of life. 7