368 November 1748. 



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 liveliefl 

 complexion on coming into the low parts 

 of the country, and continuing there for 

 fome time, have entirely loft their colour 

 and become quite pale. However this can- 

 not be the fole caufe of the fever, as I have 

 been in feveral parts of the country which 

 had a low fituation and had ftagnant waters 

 near them, where the people declared they 

 feldom fufFered from this ficknefs : but thefe 

 places were about two or three degrees more 

 northerly. 



Others were of opinion that diet did 

 very much towards it, and chiefly laid the 

 blame upon the inconfiderate and intem- 

 perate confumption of fruit. This is par- 

 ticularly the cafe with the Europeans, who 

 come into AmericUy and are not ufed to its 

 climate and its fruit -, for thofe who are 

 born here can bear more, yet are not en- 

 tirely free from the bad effedis of eating too 

 much. I have heard many EngliJJDmen, 

 Germans, and others fpeak from their own 

 experience on this account -, they owned, 

 that they had often tried, and were certain 

 that after eating a water melon once or 

 twice before they had breakfafted, they 

 would have the fever and ague in a fev7 



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