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state and to arrest disease has been done.

weather during

The

her detention here has been

dry, moderate in temperature, and otherwise

salubrious. She

was at an early period

removed from her first anchorage to another;

under the advice of Dr. Barton the medical

gentlemar employed by Mesers.

Turner

& Co. Notwithstanding these measures

of

precaution, nine deaths have occurred amongst

the Coolie passengers,

and

many

cases remain

under treatment on shore.

Within the last three days the daily average of disease has increased, and its character malignant : it hence appears

has become

more

unconta.

obvious that, if with careful isolation of cases,- with medical watchfulness and care unattain. able at sea, - with the use of pure minated water and provisions, _ with a :temperate climate, open freest possible admission

hatches, and

of

the

air to the main

sea-sickness

deck, and with exemption from

a)

and the dirt and disorder consequent upon it,

the epidemic, has gathered in intensity and

a tenfold

prevalence, it will increase in a ter degree when the ship is placed in circum-

stances the reverte

this

In

of all these .

coming to a conscientious conclusion

very important subject, I have... seriously weighed the pecuniary loss which: the abandonment of the voyage

of the voyage will entail ;

the obstructive influence it may

exercise upon

if

a future enterprise,

enterprise, in a commerce which, it be conducted on the soundest and most

just principles, which the lessons of __

experience ought to teach, may be so

conducive to

to good ;.

nor

eminently

have I dieregarded

the disappointment and

disappointment and even disaster which may

desirous

accrue

to

many of the emigrants

of emigration. These facts, and, in relation to them the unfavorable, but I will

not say impracticable, season

have received

my

of the year,

most anxious consideration,