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patient dies of a putrid fever, which is in this country 

 extremely frequent. This dreadful difeafe firft appears 

 by bilious vomiting, lownefs of fpirits, and a yellowilh 

 call of the countenance and eyes ; and unlefs proper re- 

 medies be immediately applied, the diftemper becomes 

 fatal, and certain death in a few days is the confequence. 

 The belly-hatty, or dry-gripes, by fome compared to 

 the Devonfliire cholic, is atfo a common complaint in 

 this country, and not only caufes excruciating pains, but 

 is exceedingly dangerous. This , alfo had now attacked a 

 great number of our people. As to the caufes of this 

 diforder I can give no account. The prevailing fymptom 

 is an obftinate coftivenefs, which they endeavour to re- 

 move by a quantity of caftor oil taken internally, and 

 -alfo injected by the recfrum. 



It was, indeed, lamentable to obferve the flate to which 

 we wer€ already reduced, from a corps of the fineft, 

 healthieft young men that ever failed from Europe, with 

 blooming frefli complexions, -now changed to the fallow 

 colovtr of a drum-head. It was no alleviation of the 

 calamity to reflect, that ail this wafte of life and health 

 : had been hitherto to no purpofe ; though fome perfons 

 chofe to report, that the whole was no more than a po» 

 litical fcheme to have another regiment added to the war- 

 eftabliflirnent in Holland, as Colonel De Salve's marines 

 had been before : but to this others gave but very little 

 credit. 



Of the hofpitality of the country at leafl we could not 



complain J 



