Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain / by John Clark.

Date:
1792
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Credit: Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain / by John Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECT I. THE COASTS OF MALABAR AND COROMANDEL. CAPE Comorin lies in about 7 deg. 56 min. N. Near the fliore, the land is low, and covered with trees; but at a little diftance from the fea, a ridge of high mountains takes their rife, and extending; northward, divides the coaft of Malabar from that of Coromandel. Thefe are tifually called the Gatta, or Balagate moun- tains. The difference of the feafons, which are exactly oppofite on the two coafls, depends entirely on the intervention of thefe high mountains; ‘ the coafh of Malabar enjoying dry ferene ■weather, while the , oppofite coafl is drenched in rain. The firfl Settlement on the Malabar coafl of any note, belonging to the Eng- lilh, is Anjanga. Near the fhore, the land is low, and woody; and the water bad. Cocheen, belonging to the Dutch, ftands low, and is fituated on the banks of a river. In the wet feaibn, torrents of rain defcending