154 Of the Checks to Population in Bk. i. 



difficult to conceive that this state of wretchedness 

 does not powerfully contribute to the extraordi- 

 nary mortality which has been observed in some 

 of these countries. 



According to Bruce, the whole coast of the Red 

 Sea, from Suez to Babelmandel, is extremely un- 

 wholesome, but more especially between the tro- 

 pics. Violent fevers, called there Nedad, make 

 the principal figure in this fatal list, and generally 

 terminate the third day in death.* Fear frequently 

 seizes strangers upon the first sight of the great 

 mortality which they observe on their first ar- 

 rival. 



Jidda, and all the parts of Arabia adjacent to 

 the eastern coast of the Red Sea, are in the same 

 manner very unwholesome. t 



In Gondar, fevers perpetually reign, and the in- 

 habitants are all of the colour of a corpse. % 



In Sire, one of the finest countries in the world, 

 putrid fevers of the very worst kind are almost 

 constant.^ In the low grounds of Abyssinia, in 

 general, malignant tertians occasion a great mor- 

 tality. || And every where the small-pox makes 

 great ravages, particularly among the nations bor- 

 dering on Abyssinia, where it sometimes extin- 

 guishes whole tribes.^" 



* Bruce, vol. iii. p. 33. 



t Id. vol. i. p. 279. 



J Id. vol. iii. p 178. 



§ Id. p. 153. 



|| Id. vol. iv. p. 22. 



% Id. vol. iii. c. iii. p. 68. c. vii. p. 178; vol. i, c. xiii. p. 353. 



