INHABITANTS OF JAMAICA. 



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only on the low-lying coastlands. As in the Mexican state of Yera Cruz, the 

 scourge rarely ascends to an elevation of over 1,300 or 1,400 feet, and never reaches 

 altitudes of 2,500 feet. 



The so-called " dry colic," a disorder at one time greatly dreaded, has almost 



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entirely disappeared. Consumption also carries off fewer victims than in Eng- 

 land itself ; it is even successfully treated in the health resorts of the uplands, 

 especially in the cinchona forests of Hope Gardens, and on the hills in the New- 

 castle district, where the garrison troops are encamped at an altitude of 3,820 



