The climate of the south of Devon : and its influence upon health, with short accounts of Exeter, Torquay, Babbicombe, Teignmouth ... / By Thomas Shapter, M.D.

  • Shapter, Thomas.
Date:
1842
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    PREFACE. The following pages were written in accordance with the suggestion of Sir James Clark, that, in order to determine the true character of the climate of the south-western part of England, observations should be made in some of its principal localities. Drs. Carrick and Symonds have, as far as their resources would permit, illustrated the climate of Bristol and Clifton, and Dr. Forbes has contributed an essay on the Medical Topography of the Land's End, which may be quoted as more than ordinarily valu¬ able ; the present volume is offered as another link to this chain of information. The sources, whence the chapter on Climate is composed, are registers kept by Dr. Barham in the parish of St. Leonard, by Mr. White of St. Thomas, Mr. Ponsford surgeon to the Lunatic Asylum, and Mr. Squance librarian to the Exeter Institution ; the averages have chiefly been deduced from the latter; those of rain, however, are calculated from the register kept at the Asylum, which I believe, from local circumstances, to give a truer statement of the fall proper to the district. The chapter on Geology, which is intended to be only a very general and condensed description of