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six feet in depth, Avhich, in wet seasons, renders the 

 roads almost impassable. 



■ This calcareous tract of country, although not so 

 healthy as the two first divisions, is much more so than 

 the one to be described presently. The water in this 

 tract, although not good, is better, and the air is purer, 

 than in the alluvial tract. Many of the fevers of the 

 worst type may be observed to commence with this and 

 the neighbouring towns. 



The alluvial country embraces the towns of Junius, 

 Galen, Cato, Lysander, and Hannibal, on the north side 

 of the Seneca and Oswego Rivers ; and part of the 

 towns of Aurelius, Camillas, Onondago, Manlius, and 

 the whole of the town of Cicero, on the south. 



This tract, from the great number of ponds and 

 marshes, and from its being intersected and watered by 

 the outlets of the lakes, is subject to the usual fevers 

 that are generated by animal and vegetable putrefaction. 

 A particular description of any one of these towns will 

 apply, genendly, to all the others. I shall, therefore, 

 describe the town in which I reside. 



The town of Camillus, bounded north by the Seneca- 

 river, west by the town of Brutus, south by Marcellus, 

 and east by Onondago, is a level, flat town. On the 

 north-west part, for several miles (on the Seneca), it is 

 a dead level, and this part of the town is annually inun- 

 dated, by the swelling of this and the Skaneattelas rivers. 

 The west part of the town is intersected and watered by 



