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continue there, are as free of thofe evils, from which that climate 

 is exempt, as the Irifh themfelves.' — ' Secondly, in that the natives, 

 born and brought up in Ireland, coming into other countries, are 

 found to be fubjed unto the fame difeafes as other people.' He adds, 

 that even when military bodies, compofed of ftrangers, and liable 

 to the fevere difeafes generally incident to an army, were 

 feized with fuch difeafes, their origin was traced to errors in the 

 ufe of the non-naturals, not to any peculiar fault in the air of the 

 country. — In what meafure this laft obfervation is corroborated by 

 fucceeding fads, I am not qualified to decide, our data being yet 

 infufficient for the purpofe of conclufive calculation; but, if we 

 were allowed to reafon on the point, we would fay. That fince 

 the air was free from the fpecies of vitiation which, in moft other 

 countries, occafions that trying ficknefs, called Sea/oning, at a 

 period fo far back as one hundred and fifty years ago, when the 

 ifland was in a ftate vaftly wafle and uncultivated, compared with 

 its prefent fituation, may we not now afcribe to it at leaft an 

 equally benign difpofition, or rather a fuperior one, arifing from 

 the improved and fpreading culture of the land ? 



It might be worth while to enquire, to what caufe or caufes 

 the frefli ftate of our hibernal vegetation may moft rationally be 

 afcribed. Is it exclufively owing to the efFed of warmth and 

 moifture, or to the nature of the foil, or to the combination of 



thefe 



