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Excerpt from Frontier and Overseas Expeditions From India, Vol. 6 of 6: Expeditions Overseas Egypt may be said to have two distinct climates. On the Mediterranean coast, and for 50 miles inland, the temperature throughout the year is usually mild, the air is damp, and in the winter months a certain amount of rain falls. South of this zone the climate is characterised by great dryness, with a wide range between the maximum and minimum temperatures. Upper Egypt is hotter than Lower Egypt, and at Assuan the summer heat is intense. After sundown, however, the temperature falls considerably, and the nights are usually cool and pleasant. At Cairo the annual rainfall averages only about '1 of an inch, while south of Assuan the country is practically rainless. The climate is, on the whole, a very healthy one, but fever and dysentery are liable to be brought on by chills, especially at sundown. The principal diseases of the country are Ophthalmia and small-pox, and in the hot weather there are occasional outbreaks of cholera. 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.