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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