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and purgatives — ^remedies which^ in every case^, 

 proved successful. 



Whenever an extensive commerce shall attract 

 numbers of people from more temperate latitudes, 

 to this last division of the coasts there is no doubt 

 but the yellow-fever will prevail as extensively, and 

 prove as destructive, as it does on the eastern coast. 

 The lieat and miasms, which only perpetuate a ge- 

 neral state of bad health and debility in the inhabit- 

 ants, will act upon these robust strangers with great 

 violence and rapidity, just as it happens on the op- 

 posite coast. The inhabitants of this coast invariably 

 remove, in the winter season, from the shores to 

 the high grounds. The winter, as it is termed, is 

 from June to November inclusive, during which 

 violent rains, storms, and excessive heat prevail^ 

 rendering the neighbourhood of the sea almost un- 

 inhabitable. 



It has been long remarked, that the epidemics 

 at Callao and Panama have commenced on the ar- 

 rival of vessels from Chili, not because that country, 

 which is one of the happiest and healthiest of the 

 earth, can transmit a disease which does not exist 

 there, but because its inhabitants, transplanted into 

 the torrid zone, experience, with the same violence 

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