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(should God spare them) I would return as 

 SDon as I possibly could : but at that time 

 I had not the least notion that it was the 

 yellow fever, or I should have been more 

 alarmed. I was myself their doctor ; and 

 the remedy I chiefly used was red port, of 

 which I gave them plenty. The way in 

 which they caught the infection was by suf- 

 fering a gentleman to put a trunk in the 

 passage of our house : for the fever then 

 raging very bad at Philadelphia, the mayor 

 of Baltimore ordered all communication to 

 be stopped at the distance of three miles from 

 the city, which was just at the spot where 

 we lived: and the gentleman opening his 

 trunk in the passage, while the children stood 

 looking at him, the next day one of them was 

 taken with the disorder. It is a sleepy com- 

 plaint, so much so, that the persons afflicted 

 can scarcely be kept awake ; therefore my 

 wife desired the child, a girl about nine years 

 of age, towalkin the air: she walked towards 

 a patch of turnips, where she lay down, and 

 fell asleep among them ; and had not her 



