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Rh are of a vigorous Contitution. There are eldom found and ick or lame, and but few Ditempers are known among them, beides Weaknes of the which is caued by the harp and piercing  as well as the Snow and Ice, that hurt the Sight.

I have met with ome that eemed infected witha kind of Leproy; yet, (what is urprizing to me) though they convere with others, and lay with them in one Bed, it is not catching. They that dwell in the mot Northern Parts are often mierably plagued with Dyenteries, or bloody Fluxes, Breat Dieaes, Boils, and Epilepy or Falling Sicknes, &c. There were no epidemical or contagious Dieaes known amongt them, as Plague, and uch like, till the Year 1734, when one of the Natives, who was with everal others were brought over to Denmark, and together with his Companions had the  at Copenhagen, coming home again to his native Country, brought the Infection amongt them; of Rh