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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    of the fea againft it. The tops of thefe. pre- cipices are fometimes fertile, but more ge- nerally either a bare foft rock, probably a volcanic production, called by the inhabit- ants, Tuf, or producing a curious fpecies of ■ cyperus, intermixed with trees of the erect- prickly pear, or the AbyfTinian koll-quail of Mr. Bruce. In other places, it runs out' into long narrow points, frequently end- ing in high cliffs of tuf, but more fre- quently in curious rocks or cc-ngeries of the Mad rip ore coralline, the cells of which nearer! the fea, and occafionally overflowed by it, are inhabited by zoophytes, litho- phytes, and animals of the Mollufca-tribe. Thefe points are ieldom covered with much foil, but generally ferve well for fheep and goat paflures. They form fmall but conveni- ent and deep bays, particularly on the fouth- eavi coafL Some of thefe bays inflnuate fhcmfelves fo far into the country, as, when feen in certain points of view, to have all the ornamental effect of winding lakes : and at Calivini, Bacaye, and a few other places, they have the additional beauty of fine Hoping woods, intermixed with lawns of the brighter! green, and a back ground of piclur-