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of life ; they predispose the system to the disease, or eveu iucreaso its 

 severity, but they caunot apparently generate the morbid poison. 



The lirst reported cases of the recent epizootic occurred near Toronto 

 in the last days of September. It is, therefore, of the greatest impor- 

 tance to ascertain -what was the state of the weather in that locality dur- 

 ing the month of September. Through the kindness of Professor Kings- 

 ton, of the IMagnetic Observatory, Toronto, I am enabled to introduce 

 here tables giving the meteorological register for the month of Septem- 

 ber, in 1871 and 1872, at Toronto, and a third table giving the records 

 of the same mouth for the last twenty-eight years at the same place. 



