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Show 100 TRAVELS TIIROUGJl NORTII AMERICA: the other p:~rts of the town they arc tolerably widci none cf thc.n arl! pa vet I, ",I IlllL "" 11 ".~r ·e filth)'., inde~.;d , in the h• ot mon. ths , f, fummer, the Hen h th<lt pro ceds fron1 forne of them 1s hornJ . j h.lt people (an l) c.; tl JLl ,S 1·1 1-•1 tt ~.•: 11 t 1·v · to cl -•- wlitJc!S ' whi h js fo conducive to healtlJ, :md in a town where a fi. th part ( f th" people died in one year of a pdillcntial di[ordcr, is mofl: wonderful t! * Among£t • The yellow fever, vhich ha< <:· ll"IIJitt<·<l (u·h dreadful rav;1gc •; oflatc years in '\mcri ·n, is C' rtainly to he confidcred ~sa fort of plagu<:. It fi fl ;~ppcarcd al l'hiladclphi;t in the )'t'M t 793 ; in 17r; 1 it appeared at lhhimorc; in 179) , .rl New York and Not folk; and in 17')6, though th ~ 111<tttcr "" ~ hun1cd up as much as poniblc, in order lo prevent an alarm, limil ar to tlut which h~d injure,! tiH: city lo n1uch the prct.cdiqg ye.tl', yet in cw York a f.u· grc.ltcr numl11.:r o r..k~ t hs than ufual were heard of during the fummcr .111r.t autumn, !lrongly fuppofcd to h:tvr.: b~:cn o.:ca lion~:d by the fame malign. nt difordcr. The accounts ivcn of the caLun:tous confequcnces ttcndanL upon i , in t.hcl'c r.litrcn;nt rl.r.CCS, :tiC all 111\lCh alike, :ll.d nc:u!y tin1ilar to ~hofc given of the pL 1~n c :-Tht: pcoplt: d) ing ftr.cldenly, ~ nd unJcr the mort !hocking cil(.llnltbtntcs- luch as were well Jlying aw.ty-thc ti k aban,l< ·ncd, ~nJ pcrin1inr; for 11:\lll of comnon m ell:u·ies-the r.kad lnu icd. in h ~ap~ lo" t'thn 11 ithonl any r. rcmony-charity at :~n <l nd-tllt' l . . ti c~ of fti~nr.1hip : ur. coni, ngutllllY <li!"1cgarr.lr.-d by m.1ny-othcrs, on the contra1y, nobly cominr: forw:tnl , and at the ha4a1d of t!w ir fill n liv e.> doi ng all in their power to relieve their tell ow i1 i'l.~n s, and a vert th~ g-eneral woe. 1\t Phil adelphia, in the fpact: o( about tl.rce months, n lcfs than four thoufand inhahit:uHs 11crc (wept ofF by this dre.ttlful m.dad y, :r. llltlllbcr, at tlnt tim , amountin~~ to about one tenth of the whole. J.laltinure ancl New Yo.k did nm (uJFcr fo fr.·vercly; but. t Norfolk, which i, computed to contain about three t 10ufand people.:, no kls than five huntlrctl fell victims to it. The r..liforr..ler has been treated very dill"cr ntly by di!Tcrcllt phyficians, aml a fomc r~w have furv 1vd under each fy[lcm tlMt has been tricJ> no general one h;t1 yet he·n adopted. T ~\ :ts told, howcvn, hy Jl-1· ·ral people in No1 fo lk, who J-cfi ,lcr.l i 1 th~ moll ti.:kly p.11t of 1ilc town during lh . 1\ hole time thl' r~·/cr Lilted, that a ~; ;t pn:vcntativc medicin e, a flrong mercuri al purge 1yns very uennally adminille1l'd, and nftcnv, rd s l'e . rlll'iJn b:uk; and tint Jew of thole who had taf.. ·n thi s n1cr.li inc were :ntaLI:cd by the f(:, er, All howcvcr that can be done by nu:diLine to Hop the prog tefs e;f tl.c r.liConlcr, when it h ;t~ broke out in a town, teems o be of no l'ery grc .t r. rr· ·cl ,· for~ > Ion!.'. as th e cxceflivc hot wrathcl' l.dh the fcll-r 1.1gcs, hut it regulally dif;q pc.1rs n the app1oar.:h ol c ld weather. Wi,h 1cgard w its 01 igin there have been .tlto v, rious p inions; fun1c h.1ve contend ·r.l tha t it Wl3 inl poncJ into every pl.1 ~ whcrc it appt:;t ltd from the Wt:ft I nclics; oth r1, tlut it W.J> gcn~r .ttnl in the country. Thek opini ons h:tve been ably fupported on cithr.:r fide of tl1e <p1dlwn by m ·di-al men, who rdid~d :lt thc dill" ·rent plac,,s where the fer. ..:r has appc.ncd. Then.: ~1rc a few notorious circumtbnce ~ , however, which lead m ·, a5 an imlividu:d, lo think that the fever h s been gcnnatcd on the 1\ m ~rican cOtltincnt. 1 ~ the liril plncc, the fc1u has always broken out i1\ tl<ofl: pa1 ts of to1~11 11 hich were moll cl fcly bnili, and where the ltrccts ha 'C hom fufl'r.:J cr.l thtou ~ h 11<:glig~nu.: to rcnuin lou! anl nafly; in the fecund t•I.H .. c, it h .1~ rcgul;q·Jy bmkcn oul dnrinn thc houctl tin1c ul 1hc year, in the nwnths or Ju ly aud Augun , 11 hen the air on the 1\mclican r.:oall is fur the molt p:trt !lagnant and fultry, and when ngetablc anti anin'lal m;nwr becomes pntl id in an incrl'r.liblc 010n fpa e of time; thirdly, numbcts of people diet\ of the di lordcr in New Yo1·k, in the year 1796, notwith! landing th:1t cvcry Well 1 ndi:1n veO"d which entered the po1 t that fearon was examined by the heal til N 0 P F 0 L K. IOI Amongfl: the inhabitants arc great number of Scotch :1nJ Fr ·nch. The latt ·r arcalmoft Ciltirely from the Wci1: Indic, :md principally 1rr:m St. Domingo. In Cu h proJigious numbers did th .. ·y fl 0ck over aft ·r the Britifh for ·cs hat! got footing in thc } rcnch i1l:tnds, that between two and tbrcc tlwulillld ' 'ere in Nor[o]J· at 0n<.: li me; mofl: of them, howe T, aftcT\\ ·ards difi)cri\;d thcmfel ·cs throughout di f! (:rcnt p~uts of tl1e country; thole \vbo fbid in the to\.vn opened little { wps of diffcn .. nt 1 in 1 ;, and amongfl th ·m I found many who lnd hcen in ::lf11uent cit cum! .tnLc:; hd()("e tl cy w rc driven from th ir home ·. A fhong Jlll ty lf>irit has always been prevalent an ongfl the American in h.tbil.til(S uf" tiJi-; to 11; fo much fo that a few years :l ro, when i(m1C 1 .n~;li!h and •'rl..'nch vends o[ war were Jyino- in Hampton roads, and tL..: ftilors, from .1 I , on ilJOrc, the whole people were up and n:.tc.ly to join t1 t:r. , < n the one fide or the other, in open contdl; but the mayor drew out th<.: militi:t and fcnt them to their rcfp<.:Clivc homes. I I 'rc arc two churchc';, on for l'piC opalians, the other for mcth<, difls. In th forn er, fu vi ce is not pcd(m 1ed ntorc than once j 11 two or three weeks, and very l"tl e regard i paid by the people in general to Sunday. Ind ·cd, throughout the low('r parts of Vinrinia, that is, between the 1110 lllltiin and the fea, the people have (carccly :my fenfc of n:lir·ion, nnd in the ountry parts the chmcl .::s arc all f.tlling into decay. Af; I rode alo g, I fcarc ·ly obfervcd one that was not in a nnnon contlitio: t, with tltc ' indow br k<.:n, ;;tnd door:-; droppin()· off the hina s, and lying open to the pi s and cattle v .. andcring abottt the woods; y t many of thl'C· w~rc not pall: rcpn.ir. The hurcltcs in Viro-inia, exccpting Li.1ch as ;tre in towns, Hand for th · moll part in tht: w od<;, retired from any houfes, and it docs not :tppcar that any pc·dons art appointed to pay the fr11. lldl attention to them. A ·uitom pre\•ails in Norfull , of private indivit Ltal~ y.1rds, which ar looked uron as a very lucr:uivc 1 ind of oJclinrr fl't'nVC L~ b ! rop Tty, the health officer, a rcgt1l.1r br ·d phyfiuan , anJ. that every o_n fufpctlcd was h!igcr.l lO pt· tfurrn qu.tl:tntliiC. The people in New York. arc lo fully pcrfundc,( that lire lever tiginates in 1\.ntcric;l f1om putri I matter, tbt they have flopped up o:1r or two r.lock , whi.:h were receptad• ·s liH· the filth of the ncig hbourhoo,l. ; nl which cont~min: tcd t 11e air whcu the tide W:t~ Olll. wnerro |