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There is another thing, Men guard themfelves lefs 
from the Air than in any other Places, irufting to the 
Heat of the Climate, and receive ihe cool of the Even- 
ing with only a Shirt. Now I think that the Air,ihoug[i 
not fo cold, is much more fubtle and piercing here, than 
in our Country, it corrodes Iron much more, not by the 
Moifture, for ic is not Co moift, and befides it does it 
in the dry Weather too. Perhaps there are fome other Ef- 
feds to evidence the fame thing ^ befides that, the Diet 
which moft Men procure, is not extraordinary, and the 
paffing by Canoes from one Place to another has a Danger 
in it befide that of the Sea. 
CapeCorfe^ ^pr. 2^. 16S8, 
IPromifed in my laft to give you an Account of the 
Weather at Cape Corfe for the laft Year, which Ac- 
count I have inclofed in this ; it is as exad iis I could 
give ; 'tis a thing which has been very little oblerved, 
whether it deferves to be more, I do not know. That 
Year has had the moft Rain of any that can be here 
remember'd ; yec the Mortality was much lefs than the 
Years before ; fo that perhaps Wet is not that which 
makes the Country unhealthy; though we had very 
many fick, efpecially in June and July^ whofe Difeafes 
were not Mortal. 
If you give your felf the Trouble to read the inclofed, 
you will find often mention of a Tornada, which is a 
violent Storm of Wind, followed commonly by Rain, 
but not always ; the Wind ceafes not prefently upon the 
Rain, but after fometimes it does : In this Place it comes 
(as does an Hermitan) moft frequently from the North, 
tali* Jg in the next Points, whether to the Eaft or Weft, 
bui :hiefly the Eaft, though I have feen both that and an 
He mitan from other Points,- (b the Account is not with- 
out Exception ; there are in it Ihort, uncertain Blafts 
from all Quarters, which I believe reach not many Yards, 
but 
