An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 / by C. Chisholm.

  • Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 / by C. Chisholm. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ject to alternate cold and heat, is very irre- gular ; and from this alfo it is feldom pof- flble to work an electrical machine with advantage, the fluid collected continually flying off, attracted by the furrounding moifture. From this caule too the ifland,feen from fea, is for ever obfcured with clouds ; the fummits of the mountains are almolt never diftinguiihable; and even hills nearer the coaft, on account of the denlity of the medium through which they are viewed, feldom exhibit their true lhape, height, and colours. The low iflands are never thus enveloped in m;it, never thus feem ever- threat'ning Horms; their atmofphere being lefs loaded, becomes a purer medium, and feldom lets fall the deluges experienced here. From thefe confiderations, the following Journal may have its ufe, Grenada is one of the moft fouthern of the Caribbean illands: a fituation which exempts it from the dreadful hurricanes which frequently lay walte thofe farther northward. It is compofed of two immenfe mountains, which terminate in peaks ; but, being united a little below their fummits B3 by