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a fait lake in the month of feptember, he found the 
fulphureous vapours fo ftagnated and grofs, that he 
was obliged to get up into the tailed: trees he could 
find, to enjoy the benefit of refpiration every now and 
then ; he added that he conftantly had recourfe to 
fmoaking tobacco, (except during the hours of Deep), 
to which and to fwallowing large quantities of raw 
brandy (though naturally averfe to flrong liquors), 
he attributed his fafety. However, on his return, he 
was feized with an inveterate fever ot the putrid kind, 
which he miraculoufly furvived, though others, who 
attended him on the furvey, and had lived many years 
in the climate, were carried off, at the fame time, by. 
the like fever. 
Received' 
