SNOW IN JULY.
(TO THE SEISM OF THE ..EleaorAToa..1 SIR,—It may interest you to record the coincidence that yester- day, when your issue containing the article on "London Under an Indian Climate" reached me, the Upper Engadine was white with snow, which lay several hours. Such an occurrence is most unusual in July. I have known snow to lie for a night or so in June and in August, and a few flakes to fall in July, but I believe that this is the first time for almost twenty years that snow has been known to lie in July. I should add that the snowstorm fol- lowed a long spell of brilliant weather.
The subject is a very important one, as the need for bracing is so widespread and increasing, and as the Upper Engadine is a place quite sui generis. I trust, therefore, that you will let me remark that invalids who require bracing should on no account be driven away (or deterred from coming) by these occasional snowstorms in summer. The finest weather mostly begins after the middle of August, and after an experience of five Septembers spent in the Engadine, I can say emphatically that I have always found September the finest and driest month during my long stay from June to November.
Part of what I here state is repeated from an article on this subject, which I wrote last March, in the Fortnightly Review; but I venture to make the repetition, because many of your readers are not readers of that review, and because, under pressure of your "Indian climate," the intention, superas evadere ad auras, will be, or at least should be, very general.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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