Volt III* MifcelUnea Curiofa. ^6% 



But I take this for certain, fince I have had 

 it from good Hands, that at Widdah^ which 

 is one of the moft unhealthy Places in Guiney^ 

 but 'tis not upon the Gold-coaft, he that 

 opens the Ground, though it be but to dig a 

 Grave, runs the Hazard of his Life : So mif-^ 

 chievous are the Steams from thence arifing* 

 It's poflible there may bq fome fuch Steams 

 here, only not fo violent ^ though mEngland^ 

 I think, a Gravel or a Sand (which here are 

 always uppermoll for as much as I have feen) 

 are efteem'd very wholefom Soils ^ under 

 them is a kind of whitilh Marie almbft like 

 Fullers-Earth. 



For the Air, except what I have faid be- 

 fore, I do not know what Fault it has ; 'tis 

 extream hot, 'tis alfo fubtile and piercings 

 and I believe enters a Man's Body eafier thaa 

 that in England. It has been clearer than that 

 ufes to be one day with another, even this 

 laft Year,, which has been the wetteft and moft 

 cloudy which has happen'd a long time \ I 

 think to give you an Account of the Weathier 

 in it as foon as I have time to tranfcribe. 



For the Age of the Inhabitants, 'tis very 

 uncertain, becaufe none of them keep an Ac- 

 count of it there are fome of them very 

 Grey, but if the Country be to them unheal- 

 thy. Grey Hairs may come early : I think 

 there be many more Funerals here than at 

 Oxford^ though that be a much larger Place, 

 pfpecially in the Rain-times, which to us are 

 always healthful, 



I think that much of the Mortality (not 

 all) that happens among Strangers, is the 

 'plfpd of th§ir iirpiet^ and ill Government 



