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coffin being not long enough, the lid pressed 

 on his knees, and, in nailing down, the man 

 kicked it off, and jumped out. About eleven 

 hundred died in Baltimore in a year ; and 

 a very inconsiderable number of healthy 

 or convalescent persons appeared in the 

 city, as almost every one that was able had 

 left it : the poor were removed, and lodged 

 in temporary huts, erected for that purpose 

 by the benevolent donations of the public. 

 The yellow fever is, to my imagination, 

 more dreadful than the horrors of war. 

 On account of the heat, mutton, beef ,&c. 

 killed in the morning, is not eatable the 

 next day, though hung up in the most airy 

 cool place you can choose. Fish are very 

 much eaten in large tQ-.vns and cities, as 

 well as fowls, ducks, geese, &c. ; and the 

 offal of those animals being cast into com- 

 mon sewers, or other confined places, it 

 there becomes very offensive, and contri- 

 butes to aid the common calamity, which 

 exceeds all other dangers I ever witnessed. 

 The soil of America is such, that, either 



