West Bromwich, June 28. 1851.
_Umbrella_ (Vol. iii., pp. 37. 60. 126. 482.).--In Fynes Moryson's
_Itinerary_, "printed by John Beale, 1617, part iii. booke i. chap. ii.
p. 21.," is the following passage:
"In hot regions, to auoide the beames of the sunne, in some places
(as in Italy) they carry Vmbrels, or things like a little canopy,
over their heads; but a learned Physician told me, that the use of
them was dangerous, because they gather the heate into a
pyramidall point, and thence cast it down perpendicularly upon the
head, except they know how to carry them for auoyding that
danger."