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unsightly,
system of planting trees in waste and
the roadsides should be
corner and on
adopted; and a little more care should be
ard
taken in promoting their growths after they planted. The fine open space used as a parade ground might be laid out in _ shady walks, and both afford
afford a spot for the
for
repose of the eyò, and an agreeable resort,
recreation.
The most fertile soils and climate,
and the most sterile and insalubrious, produce the same effects on human energy. By the former, apathy and indolence
are
induced, when productiveness is spontaneous ; by the latter, all hope is destroyed, and with it the enterprice of
mand. So is it with
sanatory matters. If
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placed in the
midst of perfect natural salubrity, he is apt to neglect the arrangements demanded by increasing population and by the wants of advancing civilization, and to fall a
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victim to his own indolence; on the other hand, when miasmata, and paludal emanations are the innate products of the soil, he works without hope, and submits himself to the inevitable coils of his position . This Colony
example of that medium in which
it and
o judicious care, skill in the conception of the means, and liberality in dispensing them, will yield the happiest fruits, while
and disease will be the certain
misery
sequels of apathy, hesitation and reglect.
(Signed)
March, 1833.
William Morrison.
Colonial Surgeon.
(True (opy,)
Maine
Colonial Sunstary