3. 94 November 1748* 



lybeat tafte ; and they aflured me that this re- 

 medy was infallible. Other people therefore who 

 did not live very far from fuch fprings, went to 

 them for a few days, when they had the fever, 

 in order to drink the water, which commonly 

 cured them. 



I HAVE already {hewn above, that fage mixed 

 with lemon juice, has been found very falutary 

 againfl the ague. 



IT was however univerfally remarkable, that 

 that which cures one perfon of it, has no effedt 

 upon another. 



THE pleurify is likewife a difeafe which the 

 people of this country are much fubjedl to. The 

 Swedes in this province call it Jtitches and burn- 

 ing, and they always mean the pleurify when- 

 ever they mention thofe words. Many of the old 

 Swedes told me that they had heard very little of 

 it when they were young, and that their parents 

 had known ftill lefs of it in their childhood; 

 but that it was fo common now, that many peo- 

 ple died every year of it : yet it has been ob- 

 ferved, that in fome years this difeafe has been 

 very moderate, and taken few people away with 

 it, whilft in other years it makes great havock : 

 it likewife is more violent in fome places than 

 in others. 



In the autumn of the year 1728, it fwept 

 away many at Penn's neck, a place below Rac- 

 coon 9 and nearer to the Delaware, where a num- 

 ber of Swedes are fettled. Almoft all the Swedes 

 there died of it, though they were very numerous. 

 From hence it happened that their children who 

 were left in a very tender age, and grew up 

 5 among 



