of North Carolina. 



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FURTHER 



OBSERVATIONS 



ON THE PRESENT STATE OF 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



AS to the Air, I don't know what fault it has, except 

 what I have said before of it's being sometimes ex- 

 treamly hot, at other times subtile, and piercing ; and I 

 am persuaded, it enters a Man's Body easier than that in Ire- 

 land; yet I think that much of the Mortality that happens 

 among Strangers, is owing in a great measure to the ill govern- 

 ment of themselves, for they eat but little, having destroyed 

 their Stomachs by Surfeits of Fruit, or excessive Drinking hot 

 Spirituous Liquours; and if any rather chuse the cold, his 

 Stomach is chilled, and he is immediately in danger of a Flux, 

 or extream Looseness. There is another thing to be observed. 

 Men guard themselves less from the Air here, than in most 



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