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AS the state of the weather may be considered as the most important of all agents in its influence over the diseases of a country, it will be proper for me, previous to my saying any thing of the diseases themselves, to make a few remarks on that subject.

The barometer at any time, and at any place in all this extensive tract of country, seldom rises higher than thirty inches forty-three lines, or falls lower than twenty-nine thirty-eight. The thermometer, contrary to what we would expect in a country like this, without any important hills in its whole extent, and in so low a latitude, is subject to very considerable vicissitudes. In

The only places that appear to have any considerable influence in altering the state of the mercury