STATE OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. 
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aggravated character, obviously resulting from the objects attacked being men 
of more debilitated constitutions. The remote causes depending on the con- 
dition of the atmosphere, were also more powerful in this vessel than in the 
Hecla: for, in consequence of the contracted space in which they lived, the 
air was charged with moisture which was deposited so plentifully upon the 
walls and bed-places, that every effort to preserve dryness was fruitless. In 
this extremity it at length became necessary to put all the men into ham- 
mocks, and to break down the bulk-heads and bed-places, thereby throwing 
open the whole deck to the influence of the fires. This measure proved 
effectual in removing the nuisance, and with it the disposition to disease. 
THE END. 
