Identifier: saustraliaitshis00stow (find matches)
Title: South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Stow, Jefferson Pickman, 1830-1908
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Publisher: Adelaide : E. Spiller, govt. printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ent aspects at differentseasons of the year. The trees are alwa\s green, but in the summermonths the grass looks brown and parched. After the first rainsthe whole face of nature seems to be changed, and emerald verduremeets the eye on hill and j^laiii. The best time to view the land isin October, when the corn is about its full height, and there is nosign as yet of the russet brown of autumn in the fields andpastures. South Australia is a sanitarium alike for the delicate patient ofold England, whose constitution cannot bear the east wind—which,notwitlistanding all his admiration for it, killed Charles Kingsley—and for the soldier whose liver is disordered by a long residencein tropical climates. How far the atmosphere is a cure forconsumption, or at what stage that disorder may be arrestedby the sufferer seeking relief in the genial climate of the colony,are questions upon which medical men are hardly agreed; but itis very certain that persons who thirty years ago left the United
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ITS CLIMATE AND SCENERY. 119 Kingdom suffering from this malady, and with the assurance thatthey had not long to live, are now in the enjoyment of good health,with apparently years of useful existence before them. Professionalmen whose health, or that of some member of their family, hasbroken down, have experienced the curative effects of this southernclimate, and have at the same time been able to establish them-selves in their own profession, which would have been difficult, ifnot impossible in Italy, or any other foreign country. The colonyis within easy reach of India, and those Indians who seek in SouthAustralia to recruit their health and energies, and recover fromthe enervating effects of years of moist heat, are not disappointed.There is everything to facilitate recovery. Railways, steamboats,and coaches are available, and make it easy to see a great deal of thecountry in a very brief period. The sport to be obtained Indiansmight be inclined to despise, and yet, if unexciting,

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