of the common Air at Sea . 377 
when he was formerly a pradlitioner at Oftend, during 
feven years, he found the people there remarkably 
healthy; that nothing was rarer there than to fee a pa- 
tient labouring under a confumption or afthma, a malig- 
nant, putrid, or fpotted fever; that the difeal’e to which 
they are the moft fubjedt, is a regular intermittent fever 
in autumn, when fudden tranfitions from hot to cold 
weather happen. 
People are in general very healthy at Gibraltar, 
though there are very few trees near that place ; which, 
I think, is owing to the purity of the air, arifing from 
the neighbourhood of the fea. 
Moft fmall iflands are very healthy. 
At Malta people are little fubjedt to difeafes, and live 
to a very advanced age. 
