112 CLIMATE OF RED RIVER. 



the Apostles, or with those of a Swartz, a 

 Brainerd, or a Marty n. 



The climate of Red River is found to be 

 remarkably healthy, and the state of the weather 

 may be pretty accurately ascertained from the 

 following table for the last two years. We 

 know of no epidemic, nor is a cough scarcely 

 ever heard amongst us. The only cry of 

 affliction, in breathing a sharp pure air, that 

 creates a keen appetite, has been, ' Je nai 

 rien pour manger* and death has rarely taken 

 place amongst the inhabitants, except by acci- 

 dent and extreme old age. It is far otherwise, 

 however with the natives of the country, who 

 from the hardships and incessant toil they un- 

 dergo in seeking provisions, look old at forty, 

 and the women at a much earlier age : while 

 numbers die, at an early stage of their suffer- 

 ing existence, of pulmonary consumptions. 

 These are so common, that they may be con- 

 sidered as the unavoidable consequence of 

 privations and immoderate fatigue, which 

 they endure in hunting and in war ; and of 

 being continually exposed to the inclemency of 

 the seasons. 



