Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-07-15
From TIE Charleston Mercury.
HOT WEATHER,

When che thermometer stands, day
after day. at 90 and 93, and the sky
looks like eoncave mirror of ournish.
ed steel, il is irksome to talk. and no
ous says, Bless me, how hot it is
without a SIGH that shows the suffering
under which he labors.
Charleston really cuts curious fl.
pure, and so would any other place, af-
tersuch four days scerching as it has
experienced. The dust IN the street
looks like hot sand just throwo from
the crucible of brass founder, and the
water of the Bay, SO far from raising
comfortable ideas of refrigeration, re.
sembles lake Of molten lead, ready if
YOU dips into it, TO consummase all your
ideas Of a certain place. not to be men.
toned to 'ears polite,' and to end at
once your ,cogitstions and your woes.
Snuff.takers are now to be pitied.-
The moisture Of their digits forms their
Moccoba into Jumps like p0udre q can
non-aud they snuff up, not fine parti-
alss of tobacco, bot things like pellets
Of shot. and the upper lip gsts SO be-
grimed with the black dust, that he of
4he null looks like mustachoed bonn.
bsrdier.
The air 10 so subtle that it can hard.
" expand the lungs. and you see many
sufferers gaspiDg Tor breath, with their
mouths open, and their neither jaw drop
ping, rs if they were IN srtremis.
Thoughts often run into c0Dtraries----
and, while you are devisihg some mode
for getting cool. q cart-losd of fire wood
passes before you. and you instantly
think Of kitchen 6re--of roasting,
boiling, stswing aad dripping pans. and
gFidiorns-horrible! what tissh OF
heat FIRST comes into your Imagination,
and then fires your inward parts.
lfyou are much exposed 10 the sun,
you become so perfectly aqualihed that
you may be said not to walk, but 80 float
--nars per Gstatena'tiquid0m.
That screaming black imp wbs cries
not mufiDs in the stseets would drive
eoe into fever if he was not followed
Up by another who bellows ice lemon
sds-&. the two together put body IN
miDd of Millions hell, where condemns
Cd spirits are at once translated from
rolling pillows of 6re TO mounsaios OF
Mick ribbed ice, and back wards and for
wards through such agreeable traDsi-
lions,
it's curious at two O'Clock, when the
euo enhlades Broad.street with his hot
AeR hre, TO observe some of the poor
's'amsnders crawling along the scorch
eSpasement, d others rolled along the
carriage way in giss, driven by heated,
"a. humps Of Negroes, placed by the side
S''aeir masters as absorbeDts Of catoric.
a black horse driven by Dogro looks,
iVss new, like an equipage from Bel.
asbub's stables.
Levant and couebant, sitting, stand
MS or walking, we are truly sab PhR-
and so shall we be for many long
KS to come; aud what with this and
eusct Vt the dog days, soon to visit
and the bitch days that follow them.
se may expect our usual parboiliag of
we ssason--as Shakespeare has said Of
,Svaethlng else, we may say, that to get
through the summer 10 matter Of
some heat
ssd tempns et hor0--If the heat
.oens man down it raises cotton up.
hu u 1t lenders him lank and ehalkev
sso. It imparts vigor and fullness to
.a -. Nice plant. Such are the compen.