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he more because they never meet with judicious treatment. 

 Ye see in these regions many individuals with fever cakes, 

 rho generally are at last carried off by dropsy or putrid fever. 

 ?he Indians had formerly settled in large bodies along those 

 treams, but like a few white colonists who afterwards mi- 

 rated thither, perished by that malignant fever, (Malinas.) 

 Llong the upper Tocantin and on the Araguaya, which streams 

 i this part of their course belong to this district, although 

 heir lower parts agree in climate with the Amazon region, 

 here are still numerous Indian tribes, among whom at this day 

 he Malinas from time to time works fearful ravages. This 

 leautiful land is on the other hand remarkably beneficial to 

 jng affections. They are exceedingly rare, and only occur 

 t one or two spots, which are comparatively speaking less 

 ivourably situated, and are high and windy. Pernambuco 

 5 remarkable in this respect ; it is the Pisa of Brazil ; and 

 he salubrity of the climate for patients with diseases of the 

 hest is well known in England, and hectic patients sent 

 hence to Olinda often experience great relief, even after 

 heir disease is far advanced. 



3. The third well marked district for certain forms of 

 lisease, embraces the high lying provinces of Minas and S. 

 3 aulo, the mountainous part of Bahia which agrees in 

 haracter with Minas, the thickly wooded provinces along 

 he coast, of Porto Seguro, Espiritu Santo, Rio de Janeiro, 

 >. Paulo and S. Catharina. The high lying places along 

 he coast of Bahia, for instance its capital, may come under 

 his head, in as much as from their vicinity to the sea they 

 re also exposed to the rapid changes of temperature which 

 haracterise in general this division. This proportionately 

 >est peopled district, though now possessed of a large 

 >opulation only in its north-eastern forest parts, has a 

 rue tropical climate, like the other districts already des- 

 :ribed. But it is deficient in that fixedness and uni- 

 ormity of climate, which makes the words — hot and damp, 



