Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land CompanyMatthew, Patrick
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Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land Company
Matthew, Patrick
New Zealand -- Emigration and immigration; Scots New Zealand Land Company
Much depends upon regular and natural habits of life,--exposure to
the stimulus of the sun’s light, and especially to the fresh moist
air of the morning. It is customary for girls to go out agathering
May-dew, to form a rose-cosmetic,--and the roses certainly appear. Airy
sitting and sleeping apartments are essential, and especially to guard
against exposure to dry fire heat, and, above all, against the modern
abominations of heated air and gas-burners. In some parts of the north
of Europe, where the climate is severe in winter, the rooms are heated
by stoves, which, in order to prevent dust, open only to the lobby or
passages, and consequently afford no ventilation to the rooms, but give
out a close suffocating heat. The women are confined to these rooms all
the year, excepting during the short warm summer, and being thus always
exposed to vitiated air and high temperature, are nearly of as short
duration as within the tropics; while the men, more healthy and lasting
from greater exposure out of doors and cooler atmosphere, say they
require two sets of wives. In the mild climate of New Zealand, where
the houses are scarcely needed but to guard off showers, the beau-sex,
passing most of their time in the open air, and the remainder in well
ventilated apartments, will not have this contingency much to fear. _In
other respects_, from its soft moist climate, New Zealand, like Sicily,
may be expected to be especially propitious to women.--The prospects
now before them must cause the bright blood to mantle deeper on the
cheek of the British Fair.
SLAVERY.
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