With all its attractions, however, Victoria will never become a desirable place of residence, on account of its insalubrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

It was at about the time the women began to dress in notably fine tissues that the insalubrity of the Roman air began first to be complained of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

The choice of such positions is a necessary condition of health, as in this region, no less than in the former, the valleys are notorious for the insalubrity of the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

The bottom of this gulf forms one of the finest harbours in the island, with some trade, but the town of that name is a wretched place, remarkable for its insalubrity and the truculent character of the inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

This augmentation of heat adds to the insalubrity of the climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

May not the mosquitos themselves increase the insalubrity of the atmosphere?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

The Italian peasant had ever had a hard fight with the insalubrity of his soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference

Ocumare, noted alike for the fertility of the soil and the insalubrity of their climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

To these obstacles must be added the dangers arising from the extreme insalubrity of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

They do not permit rice to be sown within two miles of the cities, on account of the insalubrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference

The name Colico, indeed, might be literally taken in English as descriptive of the local insalubrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Journeys] Reference

May we attribute the insalubrity of the atmosphere to the same causes as those which operate in the plains between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

The insalubrity of Carthagena varies with the state of the great marshes that surround the town on the east and north.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

Where the soil was rich it was generally marshy, and its insalubrity repelled the cultivators whom its fertility attracted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Exposure, toil, and the insalubrity of the marshy ground, consigned one hundred thousand to the grave during this first year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire of Russia] Reference

La Guayra to the cool but extremely variable climate of Caracas; and scarcely any mention was made of the insalubrity of the former port.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

The heat of Rēi is said to exceed that of Tehran, and the insalubrity of the climate may be imagined from the Persian tradition relative to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference

Terra Firma: old and new routes to. situation of, in relation to the island of Cuba. insalubrity of. seven provinces of. seasons in. coast defences of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

The appearance of the family says little for the healthiness of the locale; and indeed its beauty and fertility will not compensate for its insalubrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference

The insalubrity of the prisons would be attended with fatal results but that these receptacles are cleared from time to time by the flight of the prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

The other ministers had left it because of the insalubrity of its climate and the brutishness of its natives, who were very obstinate in their superstitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference

Except on its extreme northern end, and along its higher ridges, it has, — and, unfortunately, it deserves, — a most unenviable reputation for insalubrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health] Reference

Owing to the insalubrity of the climate, captain Pilkington resolved to purchase a prize vessel then in the harbour, and undertake a trading voyage on the coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.] Reference

To these thickets, and particularly to the exhalations of the mangroves, the extreme insalubrity of the air is attributed here, as in other places in both Indies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

A formidable evil, however, exists in the insalubrity of the air, arising from the extensive marshes and inundated grounds which border the lower part of the Mississippi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

May we attribute the insalubrity of the atmosphere to the same causes as those which operate in the plains between Tivoli and Rome, namely, disengagements of sulphuretted hydrogen?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

The Rio de Aguas Calientes runs towards the north-east, and becomes, near the coast, a considerable river, swarming with great crocodiles, and contributing, by its inundations, to the insalubrity of the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

A season when the night air in some degree loses its insalubrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Troy] Reference

Letters to editors “drew ghastly pictures of the malaria of the coast and the insalubrity of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman on the March]

Russia is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Tripolines, and our predecessors (Mr. Ritchie and Captain Lyon), were unanimous as to the insalubrity of its air. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference

Fortresses, insalubrity of, 111.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference