The cause of this heat is the slow combustion of the leaves and other vegetable matter of the boundless and interminable forests.

Those who at this season of the year have penetrated these forests, know all about it.

To the feet the heat is quite sensible, whilst the ascending vapour warms every thing it embraces, and spreading out into the wide atmosphere, fills the circuit of the heavens with its peculiar heat and smokiness." This unnatural heat sufficiently accounts for the sickliness of the American autumn.

The effect of it is extremely distressing to the nerves, even when the general health continues good; to me, it was infinitely more disagreeable than the glowing heat of the dog-days.
A short time before we arrived in America, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar made a tour of the United States.

I heard many persons speak of his unaffected and amiable manners, yet he could not escape the dislike which every trace of gentlemanly feeling is sure to create among the ordinary class of Americans.