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perience. For it has been obferved in this 

 country, that fuch people as live in the 

 neighbourhood of Morafles or Swamps, or 

 in places where a ftagnant, {linking water 

 is to be met with, are commonly infefted 

 with the fever and ague every year, and 

 get it more readily than others. And this 

 chiefly happens at a time of the year when 

 thofe ftagnant waters are moil evaporated 

 by the exceffive heat of the fun, and the 

 air is filled with the moil noxious vapors. 

 The fever likewife is very violent in all 

 places which have a very low fituation, and 

 where fait water comes up with the tide 

 twice in twenty four hours, and unites with 

 the ftagnant, frefh water in the country. 

 Therefore on travelling in fummer over 

 fuch low places where frefh and fait water 

 unite, the naufeous flench arifing from 

 thence often forces the traveller to flop his 

 nofe. On that account moflof the inhabi- 

 tants of Penn's neck, and Salem in New Jer- 

 fey, where the ground has the above-men- 

 tioned quality, are annually infefted with 

 the fever to a much greater degree, than 

 the inhabitants of the higher country. If 

 an inhabitant of the higher part of the 

 country, where the people are free from the 

 fever, removes into the lower parts, he may 

 be well allured that the fever will attack 



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