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tract of country to which my observations are more particularly confined, and Medical Topography of which it is the object of these pages to illustrate, will be found between twenty-nine and thirty-two degrees twenty-eight minutes north latitude, and twelve and fourteen degrees west longitude, from the city of Washington, and includes what is called the Natches, the country of the Lower Chactaws, a part of West Florida, and a considerable portion of Lower Louisiana.

From the mouth of the Ohio to that of the Yazow river, in latitude thirty-two degrees twenty-eight minutes north, the inundated country on the Mississippi is little varied by high lands, except at the Iron Banks, and Chickasaw Bluffs; generally preserving a width of about sixty miles: but at these places, particularly the latter, it is contracted to half its usual width. The high country, inhabited by the Chactaws, on the east