The journal of a naturalist / [Anon].

  • John Leonard Knapp
Date:
1838
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The journal of a naturalist / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the soil are kept constantly dry. All this seems to favour the supposition that they are healthy ; but if exempted from ailments arising from mal-aria, inflammatory complaints do not seem excluded from such situations. When the typhus fever pre- vailed in the country, we were by no means ex- empted from its effects; the severe coughs attend- ing the spring of 1826 afflicted grievously most in- dividuals in every house; and the measles, which prevailed so greatly at the same season, visited every cottage, though built upon the very limestone rock. This village and its neighbouring parishes, by reason of the peculiar culture carried on in them, and the natural production of the district, afford the most ample employment for their labouring inhabitants; nor perhaps could any portion of the kingdom, neither possessing mineral riches, manu- factories, or mills, nor situate in the immediate vici- nity of a great town, be found to afford superior demand for the labour, healthy employment, and reasonable toil of its population. Our lime-kilns engage throughout the year several persons ; this is, perhaps, our most laborious employ, though its returns are considered as fair. In our culture, after all the various business of the farms, comes the potato setting ; nor is this finished wholly before hay-making commences. Teazleing succeeds ; the corn harvest comes on, followed shortly by the re- quirements ol the potato again, and the digging out and securing this requires the labour of multitudes