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was amused, as well as ourselves, with the 

 man's judicious remark which immediately 

 followed, " a pretty state we shall then be 

 in without the goods you bring us." 



The following remarks on a well-known 

 disease are extracted from Dr. Richardson's 

 Journal : — 



" Bronchocele, or Goitre, is a common 

 disorder at Edmonton. I examined several 

 of the individuals afflicted with it, and en- 

 deavoured to obtain every information on 

 the subject from the most authentic sources. 

 The following facts may be depended upon. 

 The disorder attacks those only who drink 

 the water of the river. It is indeed in its 

 worst state confined almost entirely to the 

 half-breed women and children, who reside 

 constantly at the fort, and make use of 

 river water, drawn in the winter through a 

 hole cut in the ice. The men, being often 

 from home on journeys through the plain, 

 when their drink is melted snow, are less 

 affected ; and, if any of them exhibit during 

 the winter, some incipient symptoms of the 

 complaint, the annual summer voyage to 



