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EricRoscoe at Jul 13, 2020 05:46 PM

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1827.
Shippingsport, Aug. 5th, 1827.

Dear Brother Darius:

*** The name this place has of being sickly has not a good foundation, your conjecture does not apply, on account of the Ohio river being not so deadly a stream as you imagine.

The marsh [miasmata? word?] are given out before it gets here. Neither the extreme heat nor the extreme cold of this climate appears to produce many diseases by its direct operation.

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