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devouring jaws, and, in deadly difeafe, ex- 

 pofed a contraft, yet more afflidlve, than all 

 the perils of battle or defeat. 



Although, in my mind, the more happy 

 face of the picture maintained its imprefTion, I 

 am ferry to believe that the general fenfation of 

 the country is in fympathy with the oppofite. 

 A degree of horror feems to have overfpread 

 the nation from the late deftrudlive efFe£ts of 

 the yellow-fever, or, what the multitude de- 

 nominates, the Weft India plague ; infomuch 

 that a fenfe of terror attaches to the very 

 name of the Weft Indies— many, even, con- 

 fidering it fynonimous with the grave ; and, 

 perhaps, it were not too much to fay, that all, 

 who have friends in the expedition, appre- 

 hend more from difeafe than the fword* 



Such difcouraging fentiments I am forry 

 to find have not been concealed from the 

 troops. The fearful farewel of defponding 

 friends is every day, and hour, either heed- 

 lefsly, or artfully founded in their ears. Peo- 

 ple walking about the camp, attending at a 

 review, or a parade, or merely upon feeing 



