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considered insalubrious.* However, if measures were 

 taken to drain the marshes and keep the rivers 

 within their beds, many thousand acres might be brovight 

 into cultivation, vines flourish, and abundant crops of 

 corn grown, where at present, in the summer season, 

 only a pestilential atmosphere is to be inhaled. In some 

 parts of the island this malai'ia is so dangerous that a 

 foreigner who, ignorant of the fatal effects, should be 

 imprudently out after simset, would be almost certain 

 to take this malignant distemper. A young English 

 baronet who went to Sardinia to enjoy the sports of the 

 iield, about four or five years ago, was attacked by the 

 above disease, and died at Cagliari. The natives who 

 reside in the neighbourhood of these noxious vapours, 

 diu-iug the hot months, never venture out until an hour 

 after sunrise, and take care to be at home before sunset, 

 closing their windows and doors. 



A party undertaking a shooting expedition in Sardinia 

 for a month or two should be provided with a man cook, 

 an ample supply of dried provisions, such as hams, tongues, 

 &c., and what is of most importance, a stock of port, 

 sherry, brandy, and rum, all of the best quality ; also bark 

 in case of ague. This would secure their health in most 

 parts of the island, if they do not commence operations 

 before the end of October. I should also recommend 

 their getting letters to some of the nobles residing at 



* Daute mentions tlio Island of Sardinia as a pestilential climate : — 

 " Qual dola fora, sedegli spedati 

 Di Taldichiana tia'l Luglio el SettemLre, 

 E di Maramma, e di Sardina, i mali 

 Fossero in una fassa tutti insiemlire ; 

 Tal era quivi ; e tal pnzzo nusciva, 

 Qual suole iiseio etatte marcite membre." 



