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Field and Forest Rambles. 



it is a usual occurrence to give marriage dispensations. Thus 

 hereditary diseases are common, and of all others that terrible 

 scourge Elephantiasis, or Greek Leprosy, has maintained a 

 prominent position among the maladies of these poor creatures 

 for many years. Indeed so frightful have been its ravages, that 



FRENCH LEPERS OF TRACADIE. 



the Government was obliged to build a hospital in the district 

 for the especial treatment of such cases. This very wise measure 

 has had the good effect of isolating the disease, but sometimes 

 the wretched victim, rather than undergo forced detention in 

 the dismal lazaretto, betakes himself to the woods, and is 



