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STATION has been established at a place called Magila, one long day's journey from the coast. It is now occupied by Samuel Speare, Missionary Student and Subdeacon, and Francis Mabruki, native Subdeacon.

This site was selected chiefly with a view to health and convenience. There is much talk in England about "healthy highlands," but so far as we can learn there are none such. The truth seems to be that the fresh cool air of any elevated region has for a time a very invigorating effect, and therefore everyone who stays only for a few days or weeks feels that the situation must be a healthy one. Such an opinion, however, is not confirmed by longer experience. It will be found that the spots described as unhealthy are chiefly those where some European has made a prolonged stay, and those described as healthy are those which have been visited for a short time only. There are, however, manifest advantages in an elevated location in such a climate as this, and as our experience on the Morumbala showed that a mountain swept by winds that had passed over a large swampy