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“ If these fevers fix on a person at the end of Octo- ber, they Will not quit him the whole winter, but re- duce him to a State of deplorable languor and weak- ness. Lower Canada, and the cold countries adja- cent, are scarcely at all subject to them.” The only fever, excepting such as usually accompany severe colds, that has hitherto, as far as I have been able to trace, made its appearance in afatal form among the inhabitants of British America, is typhus. It is not, however, dangerous, unless it be among the very lowest classes, who pay no regard to cleanliness and diet ; and it seldom proves fatal even to them. This fever is by no means so alarming as it is in Europe, it appearing always as typhus mitior‘, and not in the form of typhus gravior. I have been informed that erysipelas has lately appeared in New Brunswick in a dangerous shape; the instances in the other colo- nies must have been very rare. Agues are still com- mon in Upper Canada.

What M. Volney observes regarding premature old age among the inhabitants of the Southern States, is but too true, as well as What he says about another disease—defluxion of the gums, and rotten teeth, common in those countries.ale I have not observed

* On my passage down the St Lawrence in 1824, from Montreal to Quebec, in one of the large steam-boats on that river, I met with several families from the Southern States, who had travelled north to visit the Canadas, and to avoid the excessive summer heat of Pennsylvania and Carolina. Among the whole, I did not observe any who possessed the bloom and florid complexion so common in the United Kingdom. I would willingly have excepted a young lady,