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neighbourhood of Salem are fome very low 

 and fwampy meadows ; and therefore it is 

 reckoned a very unwholeforne place. Ex- 

 perience has {hewn, that thole who came 

 hither from other places to fettle, got a 

 very pale and fickly look, though they ar- 

 rived in perfect health, and with a very live- 

 ly colour. The town is very eafily diftin- 

 guifhed about this time, by the dilagreeable 

 flench which arifes from the fwamps. The 

 vapours of the putrid water are carried to 

 thofe inhabitants which liye next to the 

 marfhes ; and enter the body along with the 

 air, and through the pores, and thus are hurt- 

 ful to health. At the end of every fum- 

 mer, the intermitting fevers are very fre- 

 quent. I knew a young couple, who came 

 along with me from England to America : 

 foon after their arrival at Philadelphia, they 

 went to Salem, in perfect health ; but a few 

 weeks after they fell rick, and before the 

 winter was half over they were both dead. 



Many of the inhabitants plant Saffron % 

 but it is not fo good and fo ftrono; as the 

 Englifld and French Saffron. Perhaps it 

 grows better by being laid up for fome 

 years, as tobacco does. 



The Goffypium herbaceum,or Cotton plant, 

 is an annual plant; and feveral of the in- 

 habitants of Salem had began to fow it. 



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