Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom.

  • Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 68 ] potatoes, ochre, ground nuts, and various kinds of pulfe, are produced here in great abundance. Among the fruits, pine apples, oranges, limes, papayas, bananas, and a fpecies of yellow plumb, with a grateful fubacid tafte, are 'very plentiful. The guayaver and acajou, or eafhew, grow here, but are not plentiful; water melons have been introduced and fucceed very well ; the wild vines, though extremely luxuriant, have an unpleafant acerb tafte. • . . ^ I \ In a former paper* I gave a fbort account of the weather at Sierra Leone, during the fea- fon in which intermittents are moft preva¬ lent ; I (hall now, from a meteorological Jour¬ nal, which I kept at Sierra Leone during the whole of the year 1793, give a general view of the weather in each month. But be¬ fore I do this, it may be proper to notice, though in a curfory manner, the moft ufual courfe of the feafons. The year, as in other tropical climates, may be divided with pro¬ priety into the dry and rainy feafons. The'di- vifion into healthy and fickly feafons, which * See Vol. VI. page 2. 3 holds