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commonly faid here, that ftrangers get the 

 fever to accuftom them to the climate. The 

 natives of European offspring, have annual 

 fits of this ague in fome parts of the coun- 

 try : fome however are foon delivered from 

 it, with others on the contrary it continues 

 for fix months together, and others are 

 afflicted with it till they die. The Indi- 

 ans alfo fuffer it, but not fo violently as the 

 Europeans. No age is fecured againft it : 

 in thofe places where it rages annually, 

 you fee old men and women attacked with 

 it ; and even children in the cradle, fome- 

 times not above three weeks old : it is 

 likewife quotidian, tertian or quartan with 

 them. This autumn the ague was more 

 violent here, than it commonly ufed to be. 

 People who are afflicted with it, look as 

 pale as death, and are greatly weakened, 

 but in general are not prevented from doing 

 their work in the intervals. It is remark- 

 able, that every year there are great parts 

 of the country where this fever rages, and 

 others where fcarce a fingle perfon has 

 been taken ill. It likewife is worth notice, 

 that there are places where the people can- 

 not remember that it formerly prevailed in 

 their country, though at prefent it begins 

 to grow more common : yet there was no 

 other vifible difference between the feveral 



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