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from this fact, be estimated: yet shortly

after the sun sinks behind the mountains,

this parching heat was exchanged for a
piercing cold. To the natives, this extraor­
dinary fluctuation is not attended with any

ill effects, and they pronounce it at all sea­

sons to be the most healthy spot in Oman;
but it has proved fatal to one or more of al­

most every party of Europeans which has

ever ventured to visit them.