p8 Mr. Saunders’s Account of the 
weather clear, cool, and pleafant, and the prevailing wind 
from the fouthward. During the month of November we 
had frofts morning and evening, a ferene clear fky, not a 
cloud to be feen. The rays of the fan palling through a me- 
dium fo little obfcured had great influence. The thermometer 
was often below 30° in the morning, and feldom above 
38° at noon in the fhade ; wind from the fouthward. 
Of the difeafesof this country, the firft that at trails our notice, 
as we approach the foot of the hills, is a glandular fwelling in the 
throat, which is known to prevail in flmilar fituations in fome 
parts of Europe, and generally afcribed to an impregnation of 
the water from fnow. The difeafe being common at the foot of 
the Alps, and confined to a trail of country near thefe moun- 
tains, has firft given rife to the idea of its being occafioned by 
fnow water. If a general view of the difeafe, and fituations 
where it is common, had been the fubjeil of enquiry, or 
awakened the attention of any able prailitioner, we ftiould 
have been long fince undeceived in this refpeil. On the coaft 
of Greenland, the mountainous parts of Wales and Scotland, 
where melted Inow muft be continually paffing into their 
rivers and ftreams, the difeafe is not, known, though it is 
common in Derbyshire, and fome other parts of England. 
Rungpore is about one hundred miles from the foot of the 
hills, and much farther from the fnow, yet the dileafe is as 
frequent there as in Boutan. In Thibet, where fnow is never 
out of view, and the principal fource of all their rivers and 
ftreams, the difeafe is not to be met with ; but what puts the 
matter paft: a doubt, is the frequency of the difeafe on the 
coaft of Sumatra, where fnow is never to be found. On 
finding the vegetable productions of Boutan the fame as thofe 
of the Alps in almoft every inftance, it occurred to me, that 
the 
