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coolnefs and falubrity of which, this is ren- 

 dered the moft healthful of the iflands ; info- 

 much that it is common, in fickilefs, to make 

 a voyage from the other colonies to Barbadoes, 

 as the Montpelier of the Weft Indies. Being 

 fituated to windward of the other iflands, 

 it receives the uninterrupted breeze, brought 

 to it in all its purity immediately from a 

 wide extent of ocean, un impregnated by the 

 feptic exhalations of ftagnant waters, or pol- 

 luted foils.— Its temperature has been far lefs 

 inconvenient than we had expected. We 

 have felt but little oppreffion from heat ; and 

 have continued our habits of exercife without 

 interruption. In the harbour, and placed in 

 the fhade, the thermometer has feldom been 

 higher than 84, and at no time has exceeded 

 86 degrees. 



Yet blefled as the ifland is in its exemp- 

 tion from exceffive heat, from noxious miaf- 

 mata, and from great and general ficknefs, it 

 has its peculiar ills ; being vifited with an 

 endemial affliction, fo much its own as to 

 have obtained the appellation of the Barbadoes 

 difeafe. It appears in form of the elephanti- 

 ifis, or what is here termed the <c glandular 



