Excerpt from Our Own Weather: A Simple Account of Its Curious, Forms, Its Wide Travels, and Its Notable Effects We are not simple in either our nature or our habits. We should not be content to live under the trees in continuous warmth or in ice huts under continuous cold. We demand, indeed, at least four good, well-marked seasons and a fairly active exchange month by month, and even day by day, between fair weather and foul. How far in this, as in so many other matters, our luxuriousness has arisen from the mere possession of luxury rather than from some thing quite special and fine in our own prime creation, it would be hard to say. But the luxuriousness itself is indisputable; and the weather, on the whole, meets our sumptuous exactions with generosity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.