 | Antonio de Ulloa, Jorge Juan - Chile - 1758 - 564 pages
...fo curfed by nature, that what is H 3 .in in itfelf good, becomes here deftructive. For doubt" lefs this water is too fine and active for the ftomachs...diftempers, and which the patient very feldom furvives. Thefe rivulets, in their defcent from the mountains, form little refervoirs or ponds, whofe coolnefs... | |
 | World history - 1759 - 760 pages
...fome running \vi:hout tbe town, and others croffing it. Thefe waters are very light and diaeftive; qualities, which in other countries would be very...pernicious : for, doubtlefs, this water is too fine and aftive for the ftopiachs of the inhabitants, and thus produces dyfenteries, the bit rtage of all other... | |
 | North America - 1767 - 550 pages
...waters are very light and digeftive, and, in thofe who are ufetJ to them, good to create an appetite ; qualities which, in other countries, would be very valuable, but are here pernicious. This country feems fo curfed by nature, that what is in itfelf good, becomes here deftrudtive. For... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1796 - 342 pages
...waters are very light and dlgeftive, and, in thofe who arenfed to them, good to create an appetite ; qualities, which, in other countries, would be very valuable, but are here pernicious. This country feems fo curled by nature, that what is in itfelf good, becomes here deftrudive. For,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1796 - 326 pages
...pernicious. This country feems fo curfed by nature, that what is in itlelf good, becomes here deftrucHve. For, doubtlefs, this water is too fine and active...the ftomachs of the inhabitants ; and thus produces dyienteries, the laft ftage of all other di ftempers, and which the patient very leldom furvives. The... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1813 - 920 pages
...This country feems fo curfed by nature, tries that what is in itfelf good, becomes here deftrucHve. For, doubtlefs, this water is too fine and active for the ftomachs of the inhabitants ; and thus producesdyfenteries, the laft ftage of all other diftempers, and which the patient very feldom furvives.... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Africa - 1818 - 514 pages
...waters are very light and digestive, and, in those who are used to them, good to create an appetite; qualities, which, in other countries, would be very valuable, but are here pernicious. This country seems so cursed by nature, that what is in itself good, becomes here destructive. For,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...some running without the town, and others crossing it. These waters are very light and digestive , qualities which in other countries would be very valuable, but are here pernicious, producing dysenteries, which the patient seldom survives. However, these rivulets, formed into reservoirs,... | |
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For doubtlefs this water is too fine and active for the ftomachs of the inhabitants ; and thus produces dyfenteries, the laft ftage of all other diftempers, and which the patient very feldom furvives. The... 