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NATURAL HISTORY 
(OF) MP ISEIo, 
Ifland of BARBADOS. 
BOOK IL. 
oe the Difeafes peculiar to this and the neighbouring Iflands. 
ZT is the Opinion of many great Men, that’ the 
Almighty never fhews his Power by infli@ing Dif 
eafes, or even great Inconveniencies, peculiar to 
any certain Part of the World, but at the fame 
time he difplays forth his Gueanens in providing 
fome extraordinary Remedies. If Eg ype is often 
denied refrefhing (1) Rains, its Dews defcend not 
g Osea only, like thofe of Hermon, upon the thirfty Plains, 
but ae idles ttl Nile alfo is commanded more plenteoufly to fupply 
that Blefling from his copious Urn. When he hath thus fertilized the 
Earth, his Waters recede within their former Bounds, and return not again 
till the flated Periods, to cover the Land ; fo that if this Part of the World 
is fometimes vifited with.Fevers far more acute than any known in the 
Northern Parts (the Plague excepted), I make no doubt but indulgent 
Providence 
(1) This muft be underftood chiefly of Upper Egypt. 
