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neighbourhood of Salem are fome very low 

 and fwampy meadows ; and therefore it is 

 reckoned a very unwholefome place. Ex- 

 perience has (hewn, that thofe 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 difagreeable 

 ftench which arifes from the fwamps. The 

 vapours of the putrid water are carried to 

 thofe inhabitants which live 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 fick, 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 ftrong as the 

 Englifo and French Saffron. Perhaps it 

 grows better by being laid up for fome 

 years, as tobacco does. 



THE Goffypium her baceum,or Cotton plant, 

 is an annual plant; and feveral of the in- 

 Jiabitants of Salem had began to fow it. 

 L 3 Some 



