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not liable to this fever ; for though many 
of thefe were as much expofed as the 
nurfes to the infection, yet [ never knew 
one inftance of this fever amongft them, 
though they are equally fubje& with the 
white people to the Jilious fever. 
IV. Tuts fever began in the middle 
or rather towards the end of Auguft, and 
continued till near the middle of OGober, 
when the weather became cold enough to 
prevent its further progrefs. In the be- 
ginning of Auguft, the weather was 
warmer than I had ever known it in that 
month: The mercury in Farenheit’s ther- 
mometer, for fome days at 2 o’clock 
p. m. rofe, in the fhaded air, to the 96th 
degree, at which time feveral people died 
of apoplexies. The latter part of Auguft 
and the firft week in September were much 
more temperate ; the weather being then 
much as ufwal at that feafon of the year. : 
The fecond week in September was cold, 
_ the wind being conftantly eafterly and the 
: 
weather cloudy; after which time I kept 
a regifter of the heat of the fhaded air ; an 
abftract of which follows. 
Vou. Il. FE ht 
