Note 6 — Section 84. THE ENGLISH CLIMATE.
Reading edition
[1] most so near, und zwar am feuchtesten an.
[2] so = moist.
[3] je mehr.
[4] Say ‘To the great moisture of the air owe (verdanken) our trees chiefly their beautiful foliage and our fields and gardens their rich verdure, which by foreigners, who visit England, is praised so much’.
[5] The words ‘most (höchst) necessary’, qualifying the noun ‘things’, must precede it. Things = conditions.
[6] für.
[7] daher, adverbial conjunction, see App. § 24, B.
[8] an.
[9] Say ‘as (wie) one cannot find it (ihn)’.
[10] under — shores, an den sonnigen Küstenstrichen.
[11] mitunter.
[12] Windeswechsel, m.