In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

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Aspects Both Choice City Cold First Ground Healthy High High Ground Hot Importance Intensely Neither Nor Out Rains Respects Setting Should Situation Subject Temperate Violently Walls

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