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cbferved, in this country, that fuch people, as 

 live in the neighbourhood of moraffes or fwamps, 

 or in places where a fbgnant, ftinking water is 

 to be met with, are commonly infefted with the 

 fever and ague every year, and get it more rea- 

 dily than others. And this chiefly happens at a 

 time of the year when thofe ftagnant waters are 

 moft evaporated by the exceffive heat of the fun, 

 and the air is filled with the moft noxious va- 

 pours. 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 

 frem water in the country. Therefore, on tra- 

 velling in fummer, over fuch low places where 

 frefli and fait water unite, the naufeous ftench 

 arifing from thence often forces the traveller to 

 flop his nofe. On that account moft of the. in- 

 habitants of Penris neck, and Salem in New y?r- 

 fey, where the ground has the above-mentioned 

 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 iQvver parts, he 

 may be well allured that the fever will attack 

 him at the ufual time, and that he will get it 

 again every year, as long as he continues in that 

 country. People of the livelieft complexion, on 

 coming into the low parts of the country, and 

 continuing there for fome time, hive entirely 

 loft their colour and become quite pale. How- 

 ever, this cannot be the fole caufe of the fever, as 

 I have bsea in fcveral parts of the country which 



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