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XXIX. Journal of the Weather at Senegambia, during the 
Prevalence of a very fatal putrid Diforder y with Re-> 
marks on that Country. By J. P. Schotte, M. D. ; com~ 
municated by Jofeph Banks, Efq. P. R. S. 
A V I N G kept a meteorological journal at the ifland 
St. Lewis, in the river Senegal, in Africa, during a 
time when the greateft part of the garrifon, and a great 
number of the inhabitants on the ifland as well as on the 
continent, died of a putrid diforder, I communicate the 
fame to you, as I thought this fatal circumftance a fuffi- 
cient reafon to make it acceptable to the Society over 
which you preflde ; hoping, that it may afford matter to 
determine the caufe of it, and lead to find out remedies 
to prevent it in future in the like climates. 
Previous to the journal, in order to illuftrate it, I think 
it requifite to make a few remarks on the fituation of the 
ifland, the country about it, its feafons, the manner and 
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Read May 1 i, 1780, 
SIR 
London, 
Feb. 18, 1780, 
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