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  • Hot and Cold Weather

  • Harriet Martineau
  • Book:
    Retrospect of Western Travel
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    02 September 2010, pp 166-196
    First published in:
    1838

  • Summary

    “Weigh me the fire; or canst thou find

    A way to measure out the wind;

    Show me that world of stars, and whence

    They noiseless spill their influence?

    This if thou canst.”

    Herrick.

    “Sic vita.”

    I believe no one attempts to praise the climate of New England. The very low average of health there, the prevalence of consumption and of decay of the teeth, are evidences of an unwholesome climate which I believe are universally received as such. The mortality among children, throughout the whole country, is a dark feature of life in the United States. I do not know whether any investigation has been made into the numbers who die in infancy; but there can be no mistake in assuming that it is much greater than among the classes in Europe who are in a situation of equal external comfort. It was afflicting to meet with cases of bereavement which seem to leave few hopes or objects in life: it is afflicting to review them now, as they rise up before my mind. One acquaintance of mine had lost four out of six children; another five out of seven; another six out of seven; another thirteen out of sixteen; and one mourner tells me that a fatality seems to attend the females of his family, for, out of eighteen, only one little grand-daughter survives: and most of this family died very young, and of different kinds of disease.

  • City Life in the South

  • Harriet Martineau
  • Book:
    Retrospect of Western Travel
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    02 September 2010, pp 63-96
    First published in:
    1838

  • Summary

    “Ye thus hospitably live,

    And strangers with good cheer receive.”

    Prior.

    “Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound Reverbs no hollowness.”

    Shakspeare.

    The disasters of our railroad journey to Charleston have been described elsewhere. We were to have arrived at the city about six p.m. of the 10th of March, when every object would have looked bright in the sunshine of a spring evening. As it was, we reached the railroad station at ten minutes past four the next morning. There was much delay in obtaining our luggage, and getting away from the station. We could not think of disturbing the slumbers of the friends whose hospitality we were about to enjoy; and we therefore proceeded in the omnibus which was in waiting, to the Planters' Hotel. We were all hungry, having scarcely tasted food since noon the day before; and very weary, having travelled the whole of two nights, and enjoyed no sufficient rest since we left Richmond, nine days before. Every little event became a great one to persons so exhausted. The omnibus jolted and stopped, and we were told that an accident had happened. The gentlemen got out, but the darkness was total. A light was brought from a private house, and it appeared that a wheel had touched the kirbstone! It seemed as if horses were never backed in Charleston, so long were we in proceeding.

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