History and description of an epidemic fever, commonly called spotted fever, which prevailed at Gardiner, Maine, in the spring of 1814 / by E. Hale, jr.

Date:
1818
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Credit: History and description of an epidemic fever, commonly called spotted fever, which prevailed at Gardiner, Maine, in the spring of 1814 / by E. Hale, jr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rather later, than it was the first ten years of that period. In the time of opening there has been no material alteration of this kind. It is a rare occurrence for the ice to break up, and the river to close a second time in the course of the same winter. Except the inhabitants of the village at the mouth of the Cobbossee-Contee, the people of Gardiner are generally farmers. Each one owns a small farm, and cultivates it with his own hands. The richness of the soil and the vicinity of a market furnish an abundant encouragement for their labour. There are, however, some pe- culiarities in their character, as compared with the farmers of the older towns in the country. Most of them, having removed here from differ- ent parts of the country, since the incorporation of the town in 1803, they have not had time to ac- quire that similarity of habits and customs, which is usually found in this class of people. The in- conveniences, to which they were exposed, when they first encountered the labours of making new settlements, have led them to disregard many of the common comforts of life. Others, having been long accustomed to obtain their support from the produce of the forest, are but slowly re- claimed from the irregular and improvident habits, to which their mode of life has formerly subject- ed them. There is a considerable number, who