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fa6lion, or felling at conliderable lofs, while the fmile 

 of plenty and content brightened the tlice of the 

 peafant, in every part of the province. 



Fevers, chiefly intermittent, prevailed very ge- 

 nerally, towards the end of tlie rains, and encrealed 

 in frequency till the micldle of Noi-c'viher. A vnriety 

 of caufes contributed to their prc:du6lion. The de- 

 bility, induced by deficient nourilluncnt, predifpofed 

 the bodies of the poorer clafs to be a^^lcd on by every 

 exciting caufe. The unufual quantity of rain, and 

 very moiil: itare ot the atmofphere, contributed to 

 encreafe the univerfal relaxation ; the water, colledled 

 m ftanding pools, fome of wiiich of great extent, were 

 clofe to the city wall, in drying up, left a putrid 

 femes ; and, laftly, the great atternoon-heat in OcJchtr 

 and Novetnber, foUov^^cd by the cold and damp of 

 the evening, gave irreliftible activity to the preceding 

 caufes, in conltitutions which had hitlierto refiited. 

 their influence. This it was which occafioned tlie 

 universal prevalence of the difeafe among our fepoys 

 and fcrvants, after the ift of Oi^oher-, when we left 

 our habitations in town, and went into tents. Before 

 the rains, we had encamped in a grove adjoining to 

 the garden of Rax a Khan ; but wlien we marched 

 out, this ground was covered with a crop of corn not 

 yet ripe ; and befides, it was low, and having been 

 'overflowed to a confiderable depth, in tiie inundation, 

 threatened to be miichievous by its dampnefs. The 

 place we fixed on for an encampment, was near li;df 

 a mile farther to the W N W. It was an elevated 

 fpot, to which the inundation li.':d not reachrd, 

 covered on the S W, by the fmall grove of Sii a h 

 Da'wul, but perfectly open on every other fide, 

 The neareft part of the hilly ridge was at the uiftance 

 of 2^ miles, the extremities of the ridffe Ivin? from N 

 10 W to S 60 W, or comprehending 110 degrees of 

 tlie horizon. To the fouth and foutii-eafl-, the Jc-erah 

 nullah was within a lurlongand a half of our tent?. 

 As it had fwclled to a confiderable heigiit during the 

 rains, and wa5 now gradually drying up, it was natural 



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