American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-07-23
HOT WEATHER.
From the Charleston Mercury.

When the thermometer stands, day after dav ~.
% and 90, and the sky looks like concave mjrrns
of FURNISHED STEEL it is rksome 10 talk and mn m.
says" Bless me, how hot it ISL without SIGH ,b,,
shows the suffering under which he labors. ,''''
Charleston really cuts a curious figure, and GO
would any other place, after such four dav,s
schorching as it has experienced. The dust in ibo
street looks like hot sand just thrown from the crn
chile OF brass founder, and the water of the R,v
so far from raising comfortable ideas of refrper,io1
resembles lake Of molten lead, ready, If Won DIM
ito it, to consummae all your ideas OF Certain placa
not to be mentioned to " ears politics." and 10 end =,
once your cogltations and your woes.
Snuff-lakers are now to be pitied The mo;strr
of their digits forms their Moccoba into umps ill.,
poudre a canon-and they snuff up, not fine nar,i'
Giles OF tobacco, but things like pellets of shot ma
the upper lip gets begrimed with the black dns,
that he oil the null looks like a mus,achoed bonb.r
der.
The air is so subtle that it can hardly expand ,bs
lungs and you many sufferers gaspng for breath.
with their mouths open, and their neither law dron'
ping, as if they were in srtremis.
Thoughts often run into contraries-and wb;,a
you are devisng some mode for getting cool, cart.
load oil fire wood passes beIo,e you and you instant
ly think oil kitchen ire-of roasting, boiling stew
Ing and dripping pans, and gridlrops--horrble
what Hash OF heat first comes into your imarina.
ton, and then fires your inward parts.
III you are much exposed in the sun, you become
so perfectly aquatifed that you may be said not 10
walk, but to Hoat-nnre per aStatem liQuidam
That screaming black imp who cries hot mullins
IN the streets would drive into fever if he was
not followed up by another who bellows ice lemon.
ade-and The Two together put body in mind of
Mlltons hell, where condemned spirits are at once
translated from rolling pillows OF FIRE 10 mountains
0! thck ribbed ice, and backwards and forward;
through such agreeable rapsitions
1t is curious at two O'clock when the Sun emf.
ladies' Broad-street with his hottest fire. to observe
some OF the poor salamanders crawling along The
scorched pavement and others rolled along the car
liage way IN gigs. driven by heated, fat Jumps of
negroes, placed by the side of their masters as ab-
sorbents OF caloric. black horse driven by ne.
gro looks, just now, like an equipage from Belize.
bulbs stables.
I.evant and couchant, sitting, standing, or walk
ing we truly sub Phebo, ard so shall we be for
many long weeks to come; and what with this and
the effect OF the dog days, soon to visit u.s. and the
bitch days that follow them, we may expect our U.
sual parboiling of the season-as Shakespeare has
said oil something else, we may say, that to get
through the Summer is a g matter of some hea"
'oed tempus ct h0ra-if the heat melts man down
1t raises cotton up, and if it renders him lank and
chalkey laced it impars vgor and fullness 10 the
kice plant. Such are the compensalions of Prov
ldence and after all, is ii not better to sweat few
months under our glorious bright skies, than to be
Tor whole Winter blowing our fingers out oil doors
and scorchng our shins within DOORS in company
with our Borealian brethren at the other end oil this
country OF extremes