96 THE AGUE. WISCOINSIN. 



siders strangers moro or less liable to it. But settlement, 

 drainage, more comfortable bouses, and care in diet and clothing 

 gradually lessen its effects. In Few York State, in tbe Gen- 

 esee valley, *about twenty-five years ago, people were extremely 

 subject to ague. Now it is little known. Settleis coming 

 from Europe are most liable to it when tbey come in summer. 

 Arriving at tbe cool season in autumn, and going into a good 

 bouse, witbi care not to expose tbemselves to bard labour in tbe 

 sun, and to keep tbemselves well clothed, tbey are less likely 

 to be attacked. Old people in Ms opinion ought not to come 

 at all, — it is very fatal to them. Salts or purgative medicines 

 taken at the commencement of tbe attack are very injurious, 

 and be has found that tbe English emigrants are generally pro- 

 vided with such medicines, and take them at once, and with- 

 out waiting for advice, on the plea that salts never did any 

 body any barm. Nothing is more difficult than to remove the 

 bad effects of this dose. The doctor said that Chicago was now 

 almost free from ague, that typhus had taken its place in a 

 greatly modified extent, and that pneumonia and rheumatism 

 were the only other diseases that were severe. 



Though I paid a second visit to Illinois before leaving the 

 Western States I have now completed all that I mean to say 

 upon it, and will ask tbe reader to accompany me into Wiscon- 

 sin, and thence up the Mississippi to St. Paul's in Minnesota. 

 The same railway facilities are found in the southern part of 

 Wisconsin as in Illinois, 



In the railway carriage I met a Shefii-eld man, who, though 

 only thirty-five, has been nine years in the country, and had 

 been previously for some years a soldier of the 1st Life Guards. 

 He had been brought up a mechanic, started in Cincinnati as a 

 maker of files when he first came out, and subsequently re- 

 moved to this State as a partner in an agricultural implement 

 factory- Bb has been doing a large business here, aiid a profit- 



