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the seventeenth century, it is unhappily too 

 certain., that this disease carried off in that 

 capital a great number of young European sol- 

 diers in 1802. It is terrifying to reflect, that, 

 in the centre of the torrid zone, a table-land 

 four hundred and fifty toises high, but very 

 near the sea, does not preserve the inhabitants 

 from a scourge, which was believed to belong 

 only to the low regions of the coast. 



