The wet ſeaſon in this country commonly ſets in about the end of Auguſt, and continues till about the beginning of January, but with frequent intervals of fine weather. The ſeverity of the rainy ſeaſon, is uſually in the months of September and October, when very heavy continual rain falls for days together; nay, it has been known to fall there for two or three weeks at a time, with very little intermiſſion. The iſland, however, is ſeldom without rain, in ſome part or other; and often during a promiſing day, the diſappointed traveller meets with ſuch ſudden, and heavy ſhowers, that in an inſtant wet him to the ſkin, nor is an umbrella or great coat of much ſervice, the rain falling in ſuch large drops, and often accompanied with ſuch ſevere guſts of wind, that the umbrella is rather an inconvenience; but let him be careful to change his wet cloaths as ſoon as poſſible, for inconſideration, in this reſpect, has proved fatal to many in this climate.
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