Florida - its scenery - climate and history

"aware that he, too, was personally the owner of what he called in his sturdy Scotch a stammock, and had never since been at all able to forget this dyspeptic addition to his stock of learning.



When one's lungs or one's nerves get sick, one acquires the sense of lungs or of nerves: and then also one becomes for the first time aware of climate. But not by any means truthfully aware of it; for if, as has been said, a man ought religiously to disbelieve all that healthy people tell him about climates, he should absolutely take to his heels and flee afar(...)".