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pronounced unhealthy, I may prevent what related to me was recently said by the Surveyor General about the West Point site which, I observed ...
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I have before abandoned by the ground of !military unhealthiness, a character which has since been found to be deserved. When the Troops left the place and the ... being pulled down by the Contractors who had purchased there, but before ... were removed the Barracks were ...
The Roofs ... Surveyor General visited the site. The flooring were being carried away and underneath he was able to bury his walking stick in soft mud ... that there ...
He found not a drain in the whole compound - that the soldiers' burial ground was immediately above the Barracks, and that the water from the hills drained through the Cemetery and was beneath the floor upon which the men ... men slept - The only wonder was that when all ...