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1 refer the Reafon to the more piercing Ge- 

 nius of thofe moft: judicious Members of the 

 Society : And it might perhaps be worthy the 

 Difquifition of the moft Learned to give an 

 Account of the various alterations and fatal 

 efFeds that the Air has on humane Bodies, 

 efpecially when impregnated with a Marine 

 Salt more peculiarly when fuch an Air be- 

 comes ftagnant : This might perhaps, make 

 feveral beneficial Difcoverles, not only in 

 relation to thofe Diftempers in America^ but 

 perhaps take in your Kentijh Agues, and ma- 

 ny others remarkable enough in our own 

 Nation. I lately was making fbme Obferva- 

 tions of this nature, on a Lady of a delicate 

 Conftitution, who living in a clear Air, and 

 removing towards the Sea-Coaft^ was la- 

 mentably afflided therewith, which both my 

 felf and others attributed to this Caufe, Ihe 

 having formerly upon her going to the fame^ 

 been feized in the fame manner. But to re- 

 turn : There is one thing more in reference 

 to this very thing very remarkable in F^V- 

 ginia^ generally twice in the Year, Spring and 

 Fall, at certain Spring-Tides, the moft of 

 the Cattle will fet on gadding, and run, tho^ 

 it be twenty or thirty Miles, to the River 

 to drink the Salt Water, * at which time 

 there's fcarce any ftooping of them ; which 

 the People know to well, that if about thofe 

 times their Heards are ftray'd from their 

 Plantations, without more foUicitatiqn they 

 go direftly to the Rivers to fetch them home 

 again. As for the Waters in the Springs in 

 general, they are, I think, fomewhat more 



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