 | John Purdy - 1838 - 420 pàgines
...with perfume. With the departure of the Leste rain almost invariably follows. The climate, generally, is delicious, and strikes with peculiar charm to a...midst of the gloom and chill of an English December. Indeed the great natural distinction of Madeira is the climate, which, perhaps, taken altogether, is... | |
 | John Purdy - 1845 - 562 pàgines
...with perfume. With the departure of the Leste, rain almost invariably follows. The climate, generally, is delicious, and strikes with peculiar charm to a...midst of the gloom and chill of an English December. Indeed, the great natural distinction of Madeira is the climate, which, perhaps, taken altogether,... | |
 | John Purdy - 1853 - 614 pàgines
...with perfume. With the departure of the Leste, rain almost invariably follows. The climate, generally, is delicious, and strikes with peculiar charm to a...stranger, whom a short sail has transferred to it from the »cry midst of the gloom and chill of an English December. Indeed, the great natural distinction of... | |
 | John Bunyan McCure - 1876 - 546 pàgines
...one or two thousand feet high. The climate generally is delicious; and strikes with a peculiar charm a stranger whom a short sail has transferred to it...midst of the gloom and chill of an English December. Indeed, the great national distinction of Madeira is the climate, which perhaps, taken altogether,... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1895 - 1126 pàgines
...from the low and tame-looking shores of the South coast of England. The Climate of Madeira, generally, is delicious, and strikes with peculiar charm to a stranger, whom a short voyage has transferred to it from the very midst of the gloom and chill of an English December. Indeed,... | |
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The nights, too, are delicious ; soft and balmy ; and with the moon walking in summer brightness, and the orange trees in flower, the air is loaded with perfume. With the departure of the Leste rain almost invariably follows. The climate, generally, is... 